148 pliijt's NATUBAL HISTOET. [Book II. 



rabianus\ Antias^, Mucianus', Caecina^, who wrote on the 

 Etruscan discipline, Tarquitius^, who did the same, Julius 

 Aquila®, who also did the same, and Sergius^. 



FoKEiGN AUTHORS QUOTED. — Plato®, Hipparchus', Ti- 

 maeus^", Sosigenes'\ Petosiris^^, !Necepsos^^, the Pythago- 



1 Fabianns Papirius, a Roman rhetorician and naturalist, whose works 

 are highly commended by PHny and Seneca. He wrote a History of Ani- 

 mals, and a book on Natural Causes. 



2 Quintus Valerius Antias. He flourished about B.C. 80, and wrote 

 the Annals of Rome, down to the time of SyUa. 



3 Marcus Licinius Crassus Mucianus. He was instrumental in raising 

 the Emperor Vespasian to the throne, and was Consul in the years 

 A.D. 52, 70, and 74. He pubhshed three Books of Epistles, and a History 

 in eleven Books, which appears to have treated chiefly of Eastern afiairs? 



^ Aulus Csecina. Ho was sent into exile by Caesar, joined the Pom- 

 peians in Africa, and was taken prisoner by Csesar, but his hfe was spared. 

 Cicero wrote several letters to him, and commends his abihties. His 

 work appears to have been on Divination as practised bv the Etrurians. 



5 He appears to have been a diviner or soothsayer of Etruria, and to 

 have written a work on Etruscan prodigies. 



^ He also wrote a work on Etruscan divination, but it does not appear 

 that anything further is known of him, 



7 Sergius Paulus. He is also mentioned in the Index to the 18th Book. 

 Nothing further seems to be known of him. 



8 The greatest, with the exception of Aristotle, of the Greek Philoso- 

 phers, and the disciple of Socrates. 



^ A native of Nicea in Bithynia, who flourished B.C. 160. He is called 

 the " Father" of Astronomy. He wrote a Commentary on the Phseno- 

 mena of Aratus and Eudoxus, wliich is still extant. His works, including 

 those on the Lunar Month and the Fixed Stars, have not come down to 

 us. His Catalogue of the Stars is preserved in the Almagest of Ptolemy. 



10 Timseus of Locri in Italy, a Pythagorean philosopher, said to have 

 been the instructor of Plato. He wrote a work on Mathematics. A work 

 " On the Soul of the World and of Nature," which is still extant, has 

 been ascribed to liim, but on doubtful grounds. 



11 An astronomer and peripatetic philosopher of Alexandria. He was 

 employed by JuHus Csesar to superintend his revision of the Calendar. 

 It is supposed that he wrote a work on the Celestial Revolutions, and a 

 Commentary on the works of Aristotle. 



12 A priest, mathematician, and astrologer of Egypt. A Letter on 

 the Astrological Sciences, written by him to King Necepsos, is said to be 

 extant in the Royal Library at Vienna, as also a work called the '* Orga- 

 num Astrologicvmi," dedicated to the same king. Juvenal seems to use 

 his name as a common term for an astrologer. 



13 He is mentioned by JuhusFirmicus as "a most just emperor of Egypt, 

 and a very good astronomer." A work by him is quoted by Galen in his 

 tenth Book on Simples, but it was most probably of spurious origin. 



