BIAS, of Priene in Ionia, one of the so-called Seven Sages of Greece, son of Teutamus, flourished about 570 B.C. The aph orisms attributed to him may be found collected in F. W. A. Mullach, Fragmenta Pliilosophorurn Graecorum (186o). He is said to have written a poem on the best means of making Ionia prosperous. His advice to its inhabitants, at the time of the Persian invasion, to migrate to Sardinia and there found a single pan-Ionic city (Herodotus i. 170), has generally been regarded as historical. He was honoured with a splendid funeral, and a sanc tuary called Teutamium was dedicated to him.
See Bohren, De Septem Sapientibus (186o), and Crusius' exhaustive article in Pauly-Wissowa, with bibliography.