498 plint's natural history. [Book V. 



FoREiGisr Authors quoted. — King Juba^ Hecataeus' 

 Hellanicus^, Damastes'', Dicsearchus^, Bseton*^, Timosthenes^, 

 Philonides^, Zenagoras^, Astynomus^°, Staphylus^\ Aris- 

 toteles^', Aristocritus^^, Dionysius^^, Epliorus^^, Eratos- 

 thenes^^, Hipparclius*^, Pansetius^*, Serapion^^ of Antiocli, 

 Callimaclius^", Agathocles"^\ Polybms'-^, Timgeus"^ the 

 mathematician, Herodotus'^^, Myrsilus^^ Alexander Poly- 

 histor'", Metrodorus^^, Posidonius^^, who wrote the Peri- 

 plus and the Periegesis, Sotades"^, Periander^", Aristar- 



^ Jwba II., king of Mauritania. After the defeat of liis father at 

 Thapsus, be was carried a prisoner to Rome, though quite a cliild, and 

 compelled to grace the conqueror's triumph. Augustus Caesar after- 

 wards restored to liim his kingdom, and gave him in marriage Cleopatra, 

 or Selene, the daugliter of Antony and Cleopatra. To his hterary pur- 

 suits he is chiefly indebted for his reputation. His works are continually 

 quoted by Phny, who regards his authority with the utmost deference. 

 Among his numerovis Avorks he seems to hare written a History of 

 Africa, Assyria, Arabia, and Rome; as also Treatises on the Stage, 

 Music, Grammar, and Painting. 2 Qf Miletus. See end of B. iv. 



3 See end of B. iv. '* See end of B. iv. * See end of B. ii. 



^ He was employed by Alexander the Great in measuring distances in 

 Ms marches. He vn'ote a work upon tliis subject, entitled, " Distances 



1^ Of Rhodes, the friend of P. Scipio ^Emihanus and Lselius. He was 

 the head of the Stoic School at Athens, where he died. His principal 

 w^ork was a Treatise on Moral Duties, which served as a model for Cicero 

 in the composition of his work, " De Officus." He also wrote a work on 

 the philosophical sects. 



19 See end of B. ii. so See end of B. iv. 



21 See end of B. iv. 22 gge end of B. iv. 



23 See end of B. h. 24 gee end of B. ii. 



2^ See end of B. iv. 26 gg^ end of B. iii. 



27 See end of B. iii. 28 gee end of B. ii. 



2" There are four literary persons mentioned of this name. 1. An 

 Athenian comic poet of the middle comedy. 2. A native of Maronaea, 

 in Tlirace, or else of Crete, who wrote lascivious and abusive verses, and 

 was at last put to death by order of Ptolemy Philadelphus. He was the 

 inventor of the Sotadean verse, or Ionic a Majore, Tetrameter Brachyca- 

 talectic. 3. An Atlienian Philosopher, who wrote a book on mysteries. 

 4. A Byzantine philosopher, of whom nothing whatever is known. 



** There were two writers of this name, before the time of PHny. 1. 



