Bias. I. Son of Amythaon, and brother of the seer Melampus, who assisted him in procuring the oxen of Iphicles, without which Neleus would not have allowed him to marry his daughter Pero. He also obtained a third part of the kingdom of Prcetus, king of Argos, through his brother's curing the daughters of Prcetus and other Argive women, who were insane. II. Of Prienc, flourished at Priene, Ionia, under the Lydian king Alyattes and his son Croesus, about 570 B. C. He was not only numbered among the seven wise men, but was one of the immortal four to whom the term "sophi" was universally applied. He was a jurist by profession, but his abilities and eloquence were only at the service of those who had right and justice on their side. He in vain sought to prevent the subjugation of the Ioni-ans by Cyrus by urging them to settle in Sardinia; but when his townsmen, after the siege of their city, concluded to depart, he alone made no preparations for the flight, and when asked about it, answered with the words now proverbial in the Latin, Omnia mea mecum porto.

His maxims have been published by Orelli in his Opmcula Graecorum Sententiosa et Moralia (Leipsic, 1819), and a German translation of them is contained in Frag-mente der sieben Weisen, by Dilthey (Darmstadt, 1835).