Metrodorus ofCos (Greek:Μητρόδωρος τῆς Κῶ; fl. c. 460 BC) was the son ofEpicharmus. Like several of his family he addicted himself partly to the study ofPythagorean philosophy, partly to the science ofmedicine. He wrote a treatise upon the works of Epicharmus, in which, on the authority of Epicharmus andPythagoras himself, he maintained that theDoric was the proper dialect of theOrphic hymns.^[1]

• Iamblichus,The Life of Pythagoras, translated by Kenneth Sylvan Launfal Guthrie, Alpine, New Jersey, Platonist Press, 1919.Online version at ToposText.
• Smith, William,Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London (1873).Metrodo'rus, literary (1). This article incorporates text from this source, which is in thepublic domain.

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