116 plint's natural history. [Book VI. 



the Younger Simonides,^^ Basilis,^^ Xenophon^^ of Lamp- 

 sacus. 



^•^ Said to have been a native of Meroe, and to have written a Histor}' 

 of JEthiopia ; nothing else seems to he known of him. 



^ The author of a work on India, of which the second Book is quoted by 

 Athenaeus. From what Pliny says, in c. 35, he seems to have also written 

 on -Slthiopia. He is mentioned by Agatharchides as one of the writers on 

 the East : but nothing more seems to be known of liim. 



^" See end of B, iii. 



