Nicaenetus of Samos ( el, Νικαίνετος ο Σάμιος) was a

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matic poet of the 3rd century BC. He was either an Abderite who lived in

Samos Samos (, also ; el, Σάμος ) is a Greek island in the eastern Aegean Sea, south of Chios, north of Patmos and the Dodecanese, and off the coast of western Turkey, from which it is separated by the -wide Mycale Strait. It is also a separate ...

island or a native Samian.A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, Nicaenetus
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