This article deals with the identity of Metrodorus, the compiler of AP XIV 2f., 6f., 116-146, and perhaps also 11-13, showing that the two most commonly accepted identifications no longer hold. One of these identifications depends on a conflation of two homonymous (pseudo-)historical figures. This conflated identity has been distorted in transmission, leading to a multiplication of homonyms and to further overlaps and conflations. The unpacking of said conflation discloses new possibilities of identification.