SUMMARY. 



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Rufus,^^ Caesennius" who wrote the Ccpurica, Castritius ®'' U'ho 

 wrote on the same subject, Firmus ^^ who wrote on the same 

 subject, Petrichus ^^ who wrote on the same subject. 



FoREioir AUTHORS QUOTED. — Horodotiis,®^ Theophrastus,^' 

 Domocritus,'^ Aristomachus,^^ Menander^° who wrote the 

 Biochresta, Anaxilaus.^^ 



^^ See end of B. xiv. 



^2 Nothing whatever is known relative to this writer on Horticulture. 



^3 Nothing certain is known of him ; but it has been suggested tliat he 

 may have been the fatlier of the rhetorician Castritius, so often mentionuJ 

 by Aulus Gelliiis, and who hved in the time of the Emperor Adrian. 



^ Nothing Avhatever is known relative to this writer, 



^ The author of a Greek poem on venomous serpents, mentioned in B. xx. 

 c. 96, and B. xxii. c. 40^ and by the Scholiast on the Theriaca of Nicander. 



^ See end of B. ii. ^' See end of B. iii, 



8« See end of B. ii. 89 gee end of B. xi. 



^ Nothing whatever is known of him. His Book seems to have been a 

 compendium of " Things useful to life." 



^^ A physician and Pythagorean philosopher, born at one of the cities 

 called Larissa, but which, is now unknown. He was banished by the 

 Emperor Augustus, b.c. 28, on the charge of practising magic, a charge 

 probably based on his superior skill in natural philosophy. He is fre- 

 quently mentioned by Pliny in the coarse of this work. 



