Ephorus or Ephoros ( grc-gre, Ἔφορος; fl. 3rd century AD) of Kyme in Aeolia, in Asia Minor, was an ancient Greek historian in the Roman Empire during Late Antiquity. He is called "the Younger" to distinguish him from Ephorus, his earlier colleague from the same town. Ephorus the Younger is mentioned only by ''

Suda The ''Suda'' or ''Souda'' (; grc-x-medieval, Σοῦδα, Soûda; la, Suidae Lexicon) is a large 10th-century Byzantine encyclopedia of the ancient Mediterranean world, formerly attributed to an author called Soudas (Σούδας) or Souidas ...

'', according to which he wrote a history of

Galienus Publius Licinius Egnatius Gallienus (; c. 218 – September 268) was Roman emperor with his father Valerian from 253 to 260 and alone from 260 to 268. He ruled during the Crisis of the Third Century that nearly caused the collapse of the empir ...

in twenty-seven books, a work on Corinth, one on the Aleuadae, and a few others. The name Galienus in this account, it should be observed, is only a correction of

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, for the common reading in Suidas is ''Galênou''.Comp. Marx, Ephor. Fragm. p. 7. (cited by Schmitz)

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