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Athena and put to death. Apellicon was also a teacher of philoso- 

 phy and a book collector, and, like some modern collectors, could 

 not resist the temptation of stealing books, when he was unable to 

 come honestly by them. He was obliged to flee from Athens, but 

 returned during the tyranny of Ai'istion. He died just before the 

 siege of Athens by Sulla, and his library was seized by the right of 

 conquest (another form of stealing), and carried by the conqueror to 

 Kome. He is noted in literary history for the possession of an auto- 

 graph copy of Aristotle's works, which he procured in Asia IMinor, and 

 afterwards edited. Apellicon may be placed about 80 B. C. 



" There was an Athenian Gorgias, one of the teachers of Cicero 

 the Younger, and mentioned by him in a letter to the accomplished 

 freedman Tiro. Cicero pere had ordered the young man to dismiss 

 Gorgias, on account of his questionable morals. Whether the Gor- 

 gias of the tetradrachmon is the same person, cannot be determined. 

 He may have been of the same family, since young Cicero was in 

 Athens about 44 B. C. He (Cicero the Younger) writes thus, after 

 giving an account of his studious occupations : ' De Gorgia autem, 

 quod mihi scribis, erat quidem ille in quotidiana declamatione utilis ; 

 sed omnia postposui, dummodo preceptis patris parerem. AiapprjSrjv 

 enim scripserat, ut eum dimitterem statim.' (Ad. Div. Lib. XVI. 21.) 



" This incident shows that the name of Gorgias was not unknown 

 at Athens, about the period to which the coin is referred. The teacher 

 of Cicero may have been the son of the colleague of Apellicon. 

 I find no Deinias of this period. He probably had something to do 

 with the mint, and has left no other record of his name. 



" Besides the valuable and interesting coins above described, I have, 

 from the same accomplished scholar, a series of about eighty copper 

 and bronze coins, embracing the common copper coins of Athens, sev- 

 eral colonial pieces of Greek cities, with portraits of Roman emperors, 

 seven imperial coins, with very characteristic portraits, belonging to 

 the first three centuries ; a series of coins of the Eastern Empire, 

 commencing with Justin I. A. D. 518 - 527, and ending with Isaac II. 

 Angelos, A. D. 1185- 1195, the last emperor but three before the con- 

 quest of Constantinople by the Latins ; and a series of six silver coins, 

 among which are one of a Prince of Achaia, one of Manuel of Trebi- 

 zond, 1238 - 1263, and a very rare silver coin of the Duke of Athens. 

 All these are valuable in an historical point of view. During the Mid- 

 dle Ages, the Byzantine empire supplied the currency of Western 



