Definite references do not occur before the 2nd century (Fronto, Ep.
9 Apuleius, De magia, 30; Porphyrion, Ad Horat.
287–293), from which it is difficult to see how ancient critics could have regarded him as the master of Ovid or Catullus.
Gellius and Ausonius state that he composed an Erotopaegnia, and in other sources he is credited with Adonis, Alcestis, Centaurs, Helena, Ino, Protesilaudamia, Sirenocirca and Phoenix, which may, however, be only the parts of the Erotopaegnia.
In it, he compares Aphrodite to the Moon, in that both are nurturing goddesses and both have elements of gender ambiguity.