The Suda is hardly communicative on the literary productivity of Philitas: ‘his output included epigrams and elegies.’ From the surviving fragments, which do little to establish the obvious influence which the poet exercised over Hellenistic poetic thinking, we learn of the following titles of works in verse: Demeter, Hermes, Telephos, Paignia (apart from epigrams) and possibly a Hermeneia (Strab. iii 5.1). G. Luck emended Prop, ii 34B.31 to argue for the existence of a Merope, a work on Coan antiquities. G. Vitelli had already postulated a Kos, with presumably the same content, from the lacunose text of Kall. fr.1.10 (Kῶν πο]λύ τήν μακρήν). The context requires the unknown work in question to have been unsuccessful because of its prolixity; the proposed title fails for the opposite reason: ‘brevius spatio’ (Pfeiffer). For the sake of completeness it may be mentioned that Philitas did not write a play called The Unruly, as Gulick ad Ath. iii 114 e assumes; Athenaios wrote έv τοῖς ‘Άτάκτοις, of course a reference to Philitas’ glossary (Atakta or Ataktoi Glossai).