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nection he says, "Similarly Anaximander in his Heroology, in these 

 terms : ' Amphitryon having parcelled out the booty among the allies 

 and keeping the sk\'pphos (masculine) which he chose for liimself,' 

 and again: 'Poseidon gave the skypphos to his son Teleboas, and 

 Teleboas to Pterelaus; this he took and sailed away.' " Athenaeus, 

 you observe, is concerned solely with a grammatical point; it is worthy 

 of remark, however, that he cites as using the form skjvpphos, besides 

 Anaximander, the poets Hesiod and Anacreon, who employ it, as does 

 Anaximander, as a masculine noun of the second declension, and the 

 epic poet Panyassis, a (somewhat older) relative of the historian Hero- 

 dotus, who treats it as a neuter noun of the third declension. The 

 agreement at this point of the Anaximander in question with Hesiod, 

 who was older, and with Anacreon, who was but slightly younger, than 

 the elder Anaximander, and the disagreement of Panyassis, junior by 

 over two generations, constitute a point, of no great weight perhaps, 

 but taken for what it is worth, in favor of the elder rather than of the 

 younger Anaximander. But this is not the only possible clew; for 

 Athenaeus cites the title of the work from which the quotations derive. 

 They come, he says, from the Heroology of Anaximander. This title 

 occurs neither in the bibliography of Anaximander the Elder nor, of 

 course, in that of the Younger, which contains but the one title. 

 Interpretation of Pythagorean Symbols; but, as we have seen, whereas 

 in the case of the latter Suidas does not intimate the existence of other 

 titles, in that of the elder Anaximander he prepares us for more by 

 adding to his list "and certain others." If we attach any weight to 

 the bibliograpliies of Suidas, the finding of a new title attributed to the 

 elder Anaximander can occasion no surprise; but with his namesake 

 the case is quite different. More important, however, than either of 

 these considerations is the circumstance that the title quoted by 

 Athenaeus is identical with one of the titles of Hecataeus. Respecting 

 the latter we do not know whether the Heroology is another name for 

 his Genealogies or Histories, or a subtitle of that treatise. It can hardly 

 be doubted, however, that it is one or the other. Bearing in mind the 

 close relation which certainly existed between Hecataeus and his 

 predecessor and the established fact that the elder Anaximander 

 included matters of history connected with the mythical past in the 

 book found by Apollodorus, one cannot reasonably question his claim 

 to these passages from Athenaeus. To assign them to Anaximander 

 the Younger, of whom we know nothing except that he lived more 

 than a century after Hecataeus and wrote an Interprciation of Pytha- 

 gorean Symbols is not critical scholarship, but the renunciation of it. 



