116 PLINY'S NATURAL HISTORY. [Book VI. 



the Younger Simonides, 35 Basilis, 36 Xenophon 37 of Lamp- 

 sacus. 



35 Said to have been a native of Meroe, and to have written a History 

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



36 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 Ethiopia. He is mentioned by Agatharchides as one of the writers on 

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



37 See end of B. iii. 



