Phocylides

Phocylides (born c. 540 bc) was a Greek gnomic poet (i.e., writer of pithy moral aphorisms) from Miletus, on the coast of Asia Minor. He is mentioned by the orator Isocrates as the author of “admonitions” (hypothēkai), of which a few fragments have survived by quotation. Almost all of the aphorisms are in hexameters and begin with the phrase “This too is Phocylides’.”