388 pliny's NATUBAL HISTOET. [Bool- XXI. 



Medical authors quoted. — Mnesitheus '''^ who wrote on 

 Chaplets, Callimaclius "^ who wTote on Chaplets, Phanias "^ the 

 physician, Simus,'^ Timaristus,"^ Hippocrates,'^ Chrysippus,'** 

 Diocles,'^ Ophelion,^" Heraclides,^^ Hicesiiis,®- Dionysius,®^ Apol- 

 lodorus ®* of Citium, Apollodorus ^^ of Tarentum, Praxagoras,^^ 

 Plistonicus/^ Mediiis,^** Dieuches,^^ Cleophantus,^" Philistio,^^ 

 Asclepiades,^- Crateuas,^^ Petronius Diodotus,^^ lollas,^^ Erasis- 

 tratus,^^ Diagoras,^' Andreas, ^^ Mnesides,^^ Epicharmus,^ Da- 

 mion,- Dalion,^ Sosimenes,* Tlepolemus,^ Metrodorus,^ Solo,"" 

 Lj^cus,^ Olympias^ of Thebes, Philinus,^° Petrichus,^^ Micton,^^ 

 Glaucias,^^ Xenocrates.^* 



rissa. Being accused of magical practices, he was banished from the city 

 of Rome by the Emperor Augustus. The explanation of these charges is, 

 that he probahly possessed a superior knowledge of natural philosophy. 

 See B. XX". c. 95. B. xxviii. c. 49. B. xxxii. c. 52, and B. xxxv. c. 50. 



~''' A physician, a native of Athens in the fourth century b.c. He is 

 supposed to have belonged to the sect of the Dogmatici, and was greatly 

 celebrated for his classification of diseases. He wrote on diet and drink, 

 among other subjects. 



■'•^ Probably the same writer that is mentioned at the end of B. iv. ; or, 

 possibly, a physician of that name, who was a disciple of Herophilus, and 

 lived about the second century b.c. 



''^ A distinguished Peripatetic philosopher of Eresos in Lesbos, a disciple 

 of Aristotle, and a contemporary of Theophrastus. 



'^ Of this writer, nothing Avhatever is known, beyond the mention made 

 of him in c. 88 of this Book, and in B. xxii. c. 32'. 



'*' Xotliing whatever is known relative to this writer. 



'^ See end of B. vii. ''^ See end of B. xx. 



"3 See end of B. xx. so See end of B. xx. 



*'^ For Heraclides of Pontus, see end of B. iv. For Heraclides of Ta- 

 rentum, see end of B. xii. 



^'^ See end of B. xv. ^^ See end of B. xii. 



•^1 See end of B. xx. S' See end of B. xx. 



^^ See end of B. xx. ^' See end of B. xx. 



s** See end of B. xx. ^^ See end of B. xx. 



a*^ See end of B. xx. ^^ See end of 15. xx. 



^- See end of B. vii. -'^ See end of B. xx. 



^* See end of B. xx. ^» See end of B. xii. 



^° See end of B. xi. ^^ See end of B. xii. 



98 See end of B. xx. ^^ See end of B, xii. 



1 See end of B. xx. ^ See end of B. xx. 



3 See end of B. vi. * See end of B. xx. 



* See end of B. xx. * See end of B. xx. 



' See end of B. xx. ® See end of B. xii. 



9 See end of B. xx. ^o gee end of B. xx. 



^1 See end of B. xix, ^^ See end of B. xx. 



13 See end of B. xx. ^* See end of B. xx. 



