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Foreign authoes quoted. — Herodotus,' Aristeas/ Bseton,^ 

 Isigonus/ Crates/ Agatharchides/ Calliphanes," Aristotle/'^ 

 Nymphodorus/^ ApoUonides/- Phylarchus/^ Damon/^ Megas- 

 thenes/^ Ctesias/^ Tauron/^ Eudoxus/^ Onesicritus/^ Clitar- 

 chus,-^ Duris,-^ Artemidorus,^- Hippocrates^ the physician, 



3 See end of B. ii, 



* He is said to have -written an epic poem, called Arimaspeia, full of 

 marvellous stories respecting the Arimaspi and the golden regions. See 

 c. 2 of the present Book, and Note 98 in p. 211, where some further par- 

 ticulars relative to him will be found. 



^ See end of B. v. 



^ He was a native of Nicaea, in Bithynia, and the author of some works, 

 characterized as being full of incredible stories. Cyril, however, says, 

 that he was born at Cittium, and Gellius styles him a writer of no small 

 authority. He is generally looked upon as belonging to the class of writers 

 called Paradoxographi. 



" See end of B. iv. 



8 Or Agatharchus, a Greek grammarian of Cnidos. He was, as we 

 learn from Strabo, attached to the Peripatetic school of philosophy, and 

 wrote several historical and geographical works. He was living in the 

 reign of Ptolemy Philometer, who died B.C. 146. His works, which were 

 very numerous, are enumerated by Photius. 



9* See end of B. iii. lo gee end of B. ii. 



^^ See end of B. iii. 



^- Strabo, in B. ii. speaks of a Periplus of Europe, written by a person 

 of this name. There was also a physician called ApoUonides, a native of 

 Cos, who practised at the court of Ai'taxerxes Longimauus, where he was 

 eventually put to death. 



'•■^ A Greek historian of the reign of Ptolemy Euergetes, and said by 

 different authors to have been a native of Athens, Naucratis in Egj'pt, and 

 Sicyon. He wrote a work on history, of considerable value, though his 

 credit as an historian has been violently attacked by Polybius. 



^* Of Cyrene, an author of uncertain date. He wrote a work on the 

 philosophers. 



15 See end of B. v. i« See end of B. ii. 



^'' Xotliing is known of this writer. 



18 For Eudoxus of Cnidos, see end of B. ii : and for Eudoxus of Cyzicus, 

 see end of B. vi. 



19 See end of B. ii. 20 gee end of B. vi. 



21 Of Saraos, a descendant of Alcibiades, who flourished in the time of 

 Ptolemy Philadelphus. When a boy, he gained a pugilistic victory at 

 Olympia. He eventually became tyrant of Samos ; but nothing further is 

 known of his career. From what Pliny says, in c. 40. of B. iii., he is 

 supposed to have been Uving in the year B.C. 281. He was the author 

 of a history of Greece, and other historical works, of which, however, we 

 possess no remains. 



2'-^ See end of B. ii. 



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