CALLIMACHUS, Greek poet and grammarian, a native of Cyrene, flourished about B.C. He opened a school in the suburbs of Alexandria, and some of the most distinguished grammarians and poets were his pupils. He was subsequently appointed by Ptolemy Philadelphus chief librarian of the Alex andrian library, which office he held till his death (about 240). His Pinakes (tablets), in 120 books, a critical and chronologically arranged catalogue of the library, laid the foundation of a history of Greek literature. Of his Boo works, only six hymns, 64 epi grams and some fragments are extant; a considerable fragment of the Hekale, an idyllic epic, has also been discovered in the Rainer papyri (see Kenyon in Classical Review, Nov. 1893 ) . His Koine Berenikes is known from the imitation of Catullus and partly in Greek from papyrus fragments (cf. Classical Philology for 1929). His Aitia (causes) was a collection of elegiac poems. According to Quintilian (Instit. X. i. 58) he was the chief of the elegiac poets, and imitated by Ovid, Catullus and especially Propertius. The extant hymns are extremely learned, and written in a laboured style, unrelieved by poetic genius. The epigrams are in the Greek anthology.