242 pliist's natural histoet. [Book VIT. 



Asclepiades-* the physician, Hesiod,-^ Anacreon,-^ Theo- 

 pompus/^ Hellanicus,^^ Damastes,-^ Ephorus,^" Epigenes,^^ 

 Berosus,^- Petosiris,^^ Necepsos,^* Alexander Polyhistor,^^ 

 Xenophon,^^ Callimachus,^'^ Democritus,^^ Diyllus^^ the his- 

 torian, Strabo,'*'^ who wrote against the Euremata of Epho- 

 rus, Heraclides Ponticus,*^ Aclepiades,*- who wrote the 

 Tragodoumena, Philostephanus,*^ Hegesias,*^ Archima- 



celebrated physician of ancient or modern times. It is supposed that he 

 flouished in the fifth century before Christ. A great number of medical 

 works, still extant, have been attributed to him : but there were many 

 other physicians who either had, or assumed, this name. 



2^ Of Prusa, in Bithynia. He is mentioned in c. 37 of this Book. See 

 Note 44 in p. 183. 



25 Of Ascra, in Boootia, the earliest of the Greek poets, with the excep- 

 tion of Homer. His surviving works, are his " Works and Days," and the 

 " Thfcogony." 



26 Of Teos, in Asia Minor, famous for his amatory and lyric poems ; he 

 died at the age of eighty-five. Pliny mentions the supposed mode of his 

 death, in c 5, of the present Book. 



■^■^ See end of B. ii. 23 gee end of B. iv. 



29 See end of B. iv. so See end of B. iv. 



31 See end of B. ii. 



52 A priest of Belus, at Babylonia, and a historian of the time of Alex- 

 ander the Great. He wrote a History of Babylonia, of which some frag- 

 ments are preserved by the ecclesiastical writers. 



33 See end of B. ii. 34 ggg g^jj Qf g {\ 



'5 See end of B. iii. 36 ggg gj^j Qf g jy 



'■^ See end of B. iv. 38 ggg gufj yf g [[ 



33 An Athenian, who wrote a history of Greece and Sicily in twenty-six 

 or twenty-seven books, coming down to B.C. 298, from which time Psaon 

 of Platoea continued it. 



*o Of Lampsacus, a Peripatetic philosopher, and tutor of Ptolemy Phila- 

 delphus. He succeeded Theophrastus, b.c. 288, as head of that school. 

 He devoted himself to the study of natural science, and appears to have 

 held a pantheistic system of philosophy. By Cudworth, Leibnitz, and 

 others, he has been charged with atheism. The " Euremata" of Ephorus, 

 here mentioned, was a book which treated of inventions. 



*i See end of B. iv. 



*- Of Tragilus, in Thrace, a disciple and contemporary of Isocrates. 

 His book, here mentioned, treated on the subjects chosen by the Greek 

 tragic writers, and the manner in which they had dealt with them, 



*^ Of Gyrene, the friend or disciple of Callimachus. He flourished 

 under Ptolemy Philadelphus, about b.c. 249. He wrote works on places 

 in Asia, on Pivers, and on Islands ; but none of his compositions have 

 survived, 



•** A native of Magnesia, who wrote on rhetoric and history, probably in 

 the early part of the third century B.C. Strabo speaks but slightingly 

 of him ; and Cicero and Dionysius of Halicarnassus agree in looking upon 



