sillograph

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  1. A satirist; a writer of satirical poems: an epithet of Timon of Phlius, author of three books of Σίλλοι in hexameters against the Greek dogmatic (non-skeptical) philosophers, of which a few fragments remain. Timon of Phlius, the well-known sillograph and sceptic philosopher, flourished about 280 b. c. Encyc. Brit., XXIII. 397.

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  1. from Late Latin sillographus, from Greek σιλλογράφος, from σίλλος, satire, a satirical poem, + γρἀφειν, write.
 

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