Dioscorides seems, from the internal evidence of his epigrams, to have lived in Egypt, about the time of Ptolemy Euergetes.^[1]

Dioscorides was the author of thirty-nine epigrams in the Greek Anthology.^[a] His epigrams are chiefly upon the great men and women of antiquity, especially the poets. One of them^[b] would seem, from its title in the Vatican MS., Διοσκορίδου Νικοπολίτου, to be the production of a later writer.^[1]

The epigrams of Dioscorides were included in the Garland of Meleager.^[c][1]

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• Salazar, Christine F., ed. (2006). "Dioscorides (3)". In Brill's New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World. Brill Publishers.
• Smith, Philip (1867). "Dioscorides (6)". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. Boston: Little, Brown, & Co.