Chap. 37.] AccoryT of corNXEiES, etc. 373 



ostlienes\ Anticlides-, Heraclides^ Pliilemon", Xenoplion*, 

 Pytheas^ Isidorus^, Pliiloiiides^, Xenagoras^, Astynomus'", 

 Staphylus", Aristocritus'^, Metrodorus '^, Cleobidus^*, Posi- 

 donius'^. 



* When he flourished is unknown. He is said by Hyginus to have 

 written a History of the Island of Naxos. 



2 He lived after the time of Alexander the Great ; but his age is un- 

 known. He -oTote a book, Trepi v6(jtu)v, on tlie retm-ns of the Greeks 

 from their various expeditions, an account of Delos, a History of Alex- 

 ander the Great, and other works, all of which have perished. 



3 Of Heraclaea, m Pontus. He was a pupil of Plato, and, after him, 

 of Aristotle. His works upon philosophy, history, mathematics, and 

 other subjects, were veiy numerous ; but, imfortmiately, they are nearly 

 all of them lost. He wrote a Treatise upon Islands, and another upon 

 the Origin of Cities. 



■* A geographical writer, of whom nothing further is known. 



5 The Greek historian, the disciple of Socrates, deservedly styled the 

 " Attic Bee." His principal works arc the Anabasis, or the History of 

 the Expedition of the younger Cyrus and the Retreat of the Ten Thou- 

 sand ; the Hellenica, or Historv' of Greece, from the time when that of 

 Thucydides ends to the battle of IMantinea, B.C. 362 ; and tlie Cyropa^dia, 

 or Education of Cyi-us. The greater portion of his works is now lost. 



6 See end of B. ii. 7 See end of B, ii. 

 8 There were two physicians of this name, one of Catana, in Sicily, the 



other of Dyrrhachium, in Illyricum, who, like his namesake, was the 

 author of numerous works. It is doubtful, however, whether PHny here 

 refers to either of those authors. 



' A Greek historian, quoted by Dionysius of Hahcamassus. If the 

 same person as the father of the historian lS'ymi)liis, he must have hved 

 in the early part of the second centurv- B.C. He wrote a work on Islands, 

 and another entitled Xpovoi, or Clu-onicles. 



^•^ A Greek geographer, who seems to have wTitten an account of C^-p^us. 



" He is quoted by Strabo, Atlienseus, and the Schohasts ; but all that 

 is known of him is, that he wi-ote a work on Thessaly, ^olia, Attica, 

 and Arcadia. 



12 He ^^Tote a work relative to IMiletus ; but nothing further is known 

 of him. 13 See end of B. iii. 



1** Probably a writer on geography, of whom no narticulara are known. 



^* See end of B. ii. 



