242 PLTJTT'S NATURAL HISTOET. [Book VI I. 



Asclepiades 24 the physician, Hesiod, 25 Anacreon, 26 Theo- 

 pornpus, 27 Hellanicus, 23 Damastes, 29 Ephorus, 30 Epigenes, 31 

 Berosus, 32 Petosiris, 33 Necepsos, 34 Alexander Polyhistor, 35 

 Xenophon, 36 Callimachus, 37 Democritus, 38 Diyllus 39 the his- 

 torian, Strabo, 40 who wrote against the Euremata of Epho- 

 rus, Heraclides Ponticus, 41 Aclepiades, 42 who wrote the 

 Tragodoumena, Philostephanus, 43 Hegesias, 44 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. 



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

 Note 44 in p. 183. 



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

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

 u Theogony." 



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. 



27 See end of B. ii. See end of B. iv. 

 29 See end of B. iv. 3 See end of B. iv. 



31 See end of B. ii. 



32 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 See end of B. ii. 

 35 See end of B. iii. 36 See end of B. iv. 

 37 See end of B. iv. 38 See end of B. ii. 



59 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 Plata3a continued it. 



40 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, Leijbnitz, and 

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

 here mentioned, was a book which treated of inventions. 



41 See end of B. iv. 



42 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. 



43 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 Rivers, and on Islands ; but none of his compositions have 

 survived. 



u f 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 



