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'', Socrates attributes a homoerotic verse to him. Socrates quotes this verse while describing his lust for

's youthful body. As the painter started working later in Plato's own life, this Cydias may refer to a different, unspecified person.

Poetry

* "not to bring the fawn in the sight of the lion to be devoured by him" - fragment of unspecified poem

References

Attribution: * Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown Ancient Greek painters People from Kythnos 4th-century BC Greek poets Ancient Greek LGBTQ people Greek LGBTQ painters Greek LGBTQ poets Writers of lost works 4th-century BC painters {{Greece-painter-stub