SUMMARY. 



Rufus, 81 Csesennius 85 who wrote the Cepurica, Castritius 88 who 

 wrote on the same subject, Firmus 84 who wrote ou the same- 

 subject, Petrichus M who wrote on the same subject. 



FOBEIGN AUTHORS QUOTED. Herodotus, 86 Theophrastus, 87 

 Demooritus, 89 Aristomachus, 89 Menander 90 who wrote the 

 Eiochresta, Anaxilaus. 91 



81 See end of B. xiv. 



82 Nothing whatever is known relative to this writer on Horticulture. 

 Nothing certain is known of him; hut it has been suggested that ho 



may have been the father of the rhetorician Castritius, so often mentioned 

 by Aulus Gellius, and who lived in the time of the Emperor Adrian. 



*** Nothing whatever is known relative to this writer. 



85 The author of a Greek poem on venomous serpents, mentioned in B. xx. 

 c. 96, and B. xxii. c. 40. and by the Scholiast on the Theriaca of Nicander. 

 ' 86 See end of B. ii. ' 87 See end of B. iii. 



s See end of B. ii. 89 See end of B. xi. 



90 Nothing whatever is known of him. His Book seems to have been a 

 compendium of "Things useful to life." 



91 A physician and Pythagorean philosopher, born at one of the cities 

 called Larissa, but which, is now unknown. He was banished by th; 

 Emperor Augustus, B.C. 28, on the charge of practising magic, a charge 

 probably based on Ins superior skill in natural philosophy. He is fre- 

 quently mentioned by Pliny in the coarse of this work. 





