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has been strongly questioned), he is the poet of that name 

 alluded to in an epigram of Meleager, three epigrams, and 

 the fragments in Athenceus, are all that have reached us of 

 his writings. 



An elegiac poem, 'AXievrtKds, by Numenius of Heraclea, a 

 disciple of Dieuchis the physician. 



An epic poem, 'AXuvriKa^ by Posidonius, a Corinthian. 



An epic poem, 'A<T-aXt£vr«/ca, in four books, by Seleucus of 

 Emesa. 



An epic poem, "Ax^eOj, by Alexander the ^tolian, a 

 tragic writer, who, according to Suidas, was one of the 

 tragic Pleiad. 



A book in prose, 'AXuvnKa, by Seleucus of Tarsus. 



Another, ' AXuvriKd-s, by Leonidas of Byzantium, possibly 

 the grammarian who wrote at Rome about A.D. 90 : and 

 several works on Fishes, in which, as we may conjecture, 

 w^ere some notices of fishing ; among the rest, that of 

 Epcenetus, and another of Dorion, an obscure writer, 

 much quoted by Athenseus, who earned the name of Fish- 

 glutton, from his luxurious indulgence. 



Haheutica, a Latin poem in hexameter verse, by Ne- 

 MEsiANus of Carthage, a poet of no small reputation in his 

 time (A.D. 285), who also wrote Cynegetica, Nautica, and 

 De Aucupio, The Cynegetica (at least 325 verses of it, 

 for it is undeniably incomplete), two fragments of the De 

 Aucupio, and some small poems, are all that we have of him. 

 His style is far from being bad, and the skill which he 

 displays in treating of Hunting, affords good reason for 

 regretting the loss of his Halieutica. 



Among the works on the subject, or illustrating it, that 

 remain (not to speak of Aristotle, Pliny, et cet.), is the 

 fragment we have already named as attributed to Ovid, to 

 which is usually prefixed, by the editors, a brief fragment, 

 called Poriticon (supposed by some to be the remains of 

 Nemesian's work on Fishing), and added another fragment, 

 of such little value that it is not worth while to trouble the 



