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chus^ of Sicyon, Eudoxus", Antigcnes', Callicrates^, Xeno- 

 phon* of Lampsacus, Diodonis*' of Syracuse, IFanno^, Him- 

 ilco^ Nympliodorus^, Calliplianes^", Artemidorus", Meg- 



Periander of Corinth, one of the Seven Wise Men, who wTote a didactic 

 poem, containing moral and pohtical precepts, in 2000 Unes ; and, 2. a 

 physician and bad poet, contemporary with Arcliidamas, the son of 

 Agesilails. It is uncertain to which Phny here refers. 



* Probably a WTiter on geography. Nothing appears to be known 

 of him. 



' Of Cyzicus, see end of B. ii. ; of Cnidos, see end of B. iv. 

 ' A Greek historian, who appears, from Plutarch, to have written a 

 liistory of the cxpecUtions of Alexander the Great. 



* See end of B. iii. * See end of B. iii. * See end of B. iii. 

 ' The author of the Periplus,or voyage wliich he perfonned round a part 



of Libya, of wlxich we have a Greek translation fi-om the Punic original. 

 His age is not known, but PUny states (B. ii. c. 67, and B. v. c. 1) that 

 the voyage was imdertaken in the most floiu-isliing days of Carthage. It 

 has been considered on the whole, that he may be probably identified 

 with Hanno, the son or the father of Ilamilcar, who was slain at 

 Himera, B.C. 480. 



^ Mentioned also by Phny, B. ii. c. 67, as having conducted a voyage 

 of discovery from Gades towards the north, along the western shores of 

 Europe, at the same time that Hanno proceeded on his voyage along the 

 western coast of Africa. He is repeatedly quoted by Festus Avienus, in 

 his geographical poem called Ora Maritima. His voyage is said to have 

 lasted four months, but it is impossible to judge how far it extended. 

 « See end of B. iii. '" See end of B. iii. " See end of B. il 



*2 A Greek geographer, and friend of Seleucus Nicator, by whom ho 

 was sent on an embassy to Sandrocottus, king of the Prasii, whoso 

 capital was Palibothra, a to\m probably in the vicinity of tlie present 

 Patna. Whether he had accompanied Alexander on his invasion of 

 India is quite micei'tain. He wrote a work on In(Ha in four books, to 

 which the subsequent Greek writt-rs wen' chiefly indebted for their 

 accounts of India. Arrian sjK-aks highly of him as a writer, but Strabo 

 impeaches his veracity; and we find Pliny hinting the same in B. vi. 

 c. 21. Of his work only a few iragments survive. 



13 See end of B. ii. " Sec end of B. iv. 



** There was a philosopher of this name, a nepliew of Chrjsi])pu8, and 

 his puj)il ; but it is not known whether he is the person referretl to, in 

 C. 10, cither as having WTitten a work on universal geography, or on that 

 of Egypt. 



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