Chabas, Papyr.

magrque Harris.
p.135.Phocylides of Miletus, a rough and sarcastic, but observant man, imitated Simonides in his style of writing.

But the deformed Hipponax of Ephesus, a poet crushed down by poverty, wrote far bitterer verses than Phocylides.

He lived about 550 B.C.

"His own ugliness (according to Bernhardy) is reflected in every one of his Choliambics." ] "How beautifully you speak!" exclaimed Bartja.