158 plikt's NATURAL HISTORY. [Book XII. 



Zoilus 42 of Macedon, Democritus, 43 Amphilochus, 44 Aristo- 

 machus, 45 Alexander Polyhistor, 46 Juba, 47 Apollodorus 48 who 

 wrote on Perfumes, Heraclides 49 the physician, Archidemus 

 the physician, Dionysius 51 the physician, Democlides 52 the 

 physician, Euphron 53 the physician, Mnesides 54 the physician, 

 Diagoras 55 the physician, Iollas 56 the physician, Heraclides 07 

 of Tarentum, Xenocrates 58 of Ephesus, Eratosthenes. 59 



wars of Alexander the Great. There was another writer of the same name, 

 a native of Philippi, who also wrote a treatise, either geographical or his- 

 torical, relative to Macedonia. 



43 A native of Amphipolis, though some make him to hare been an 

 Ephesian. The age in which he lived is not exactly known. He attacked 

 the writings of Homer with such uncalled-for asperity, that his name has 

 heen proverbial for a snarling, captious critic. He is said to have met 

 with a violent death. His literary productions were numerous, hut none 

 of them have come down to us. 



« See end of B. ii. 44 See end of B. vm. 



45 See end of B. xi. 46 See end of B. in. 



47 See end of B. v. 48 See end of B. xi. 



49 A physician of Heraclea, near Ephesus. He wrote commentaries on 

 the works of Hippocrates. , 



50 Nothing is known of him ; hat it has heen suggested that he may 

 have heen the author of a few fragments on veterinary surgery which still 



exist 



51 There were many physicians and surgeons of this name, hut probably 

 Dionysius of Samos is meant, or else Sallustius Dionysius, quoted by Pliny, 

 B. xxxii. c. 26. , 



« Also called Democedes, a physician of Crotona, who practised at 

 JEgina. He was afterwards physician to Polycrates, the tyrant of bamos, 

 and King Darius, whose foot he cured. His work on medicine has pe- 

 rished. 



53 Nothing whatever is known of this writer. 



54 Nothing is known relative to this writer. 



55 Nothing is known of him. , 



se Or Iolaus, a native of Bithynia, who wrote a work on Materia Medica. 

 He was probably a contemporary of Heraclides of Tarentum, in the third 



century B.C. ; , _ „ 



57 A physician of Tarentum, who belonged to the Empiric sect. He 



wrote several medical works, and is highly commended by Galen. Only a 



few fragments of his writings remain, 

 is An historical and geographical writer, frequently quoted by Fliny. 



From the mention made of him in B. xxxvii. c. 2, it would appeal- that he 



flourished during the time of Pliny, or very shortly before. 

 59 See end of B. ii. 



