Nestor of Laranda

Lucius Septimius Nestor (Ancient Greek: Λεύκιος Σεπτίμιος Νέστωρ) also known as Nestor of Laranda (Νέστωρ Λαρανδεύς), was a Greek poet who lived during the late-second and early-third centuries AD.

[1] He composed learned poetry on a variety of subjects in the tradition of Hellenistic poets like Nicander and Parthenius of Nicaea, but his magnum opus was perhaps the lipogrammatic Iliad, a work which would have been a showpiece for his poetic virtuosity and knowledge of Homeric scholarship.

[3] No fragments of the Ilias leipogrammatos survive, but the poem will have concerned the Trojan War much like Homer's Iliad, with at least one notable difference: the letter denoting each book's number would not have been used in its text; the first book, for example, would not include the letter alpha (α) which was used to denote the numeral 1.

[4] Two works of medical didactic poetry are also attested for Nestor by the Geoponica: the Alexicepus (Ἀλεξίκηπος, Alexíkēpos), or Garden of Defence, and Panacea (Πανάκεια, Panákeia).

[5] An Alexandreiad (Ἀλεξανδρείας, Alexandreiás), meaning "On the deeds of Alexander", attributed to a "Nestor" by Stephanus of Byzantium, who cited the poem for toponyms, was probably the work of this poet.