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Hellanicus^ Damastes*, Eudoxus', Dicaearchus*, Timo- 

 sthenes*, Eratosthenes', Ephorus', Crates the Grrammarian*, 

 Serapion' of Antioch, Callimachus*", Artemidorus", Apol- 

 lodorus ", Agathocles ", Eumachus ", Timaeus the Sici- 



geographical works. There is little doubt that Herodotus extensively 

 availed himself of this writer's works, though it is equally untrue that 

 he has transcribed whole passages from him, as Porphyrius has ventured 

 to assert. 



^ Of Mitylene, supposed to have flourished about B.C. 450. He ap- 

 pears to have written numerous geographical and historical works, which, 

 with the exception of a considerable number of fragments, are lost. 



^ Of Sigseum, a Greek historian, contemporary with Herodotus. He 

 wrote a history of Greece, and several other works, all of which, with a 

 few unimportant exceptions, are lost. 



* See end of B. ii. * See end of B. ii. 



• A Rhodian by birth. He was admiral of the fleet of Ptolemy Phila- 

 delphus, who reigned from B.C. 285 to 247. He wrote a work " On 

 Harbours," in ten books, which was copied by Eratosthenes, and is 

 frequently quoted by ancient writers. Strabo also says that he com* 

 posed poetry. • See end of B. ii. 



' Of Cumse, or Cymse, in Ionia. He flourished about B.C. 408. He 

 studied imder Isocrates, and gained considerable fame as a historian. 

 Though anxious to disclose the truth, he has been accused of sometimes 

 forcing his authorities to suit his own views. Of his history of Greece, 

 and his essays on various subjects, a few fragments only survive. 



8 A grammarian of Mallus, in Cilicia. He hved in the time of Ptolemy 

 Philopater, and resided at Pergamus,imder the patronage of Eumenes II. 

 and Attains II. In his grammatical system he made a strong distinc- 

 tion between criticism and grammar, the latter of wliich sciences he re- 

 garded as quite subordinate to the former. Of his learned commentaries 

 on the Iliad and the Odyssey, only a few fragments have come down 

 to us. • See end of B. iL 



^^ Of Gyrene, an Alexandrian grammarian and poet. He flourished 

 at Alexandria, whither Ptolemy Pliiladelphus had invited him to a place 

 in the Museum, Of his Hymns and Epigrams many are still extant. His 

 Elegies, which were of considerable poetical merit, with the exception of 

 a few fragments, have aU perished. Of his numerous other works in 

 prose, not one is extant in an entire state. ^^ See end of B. ii. 



^2 Probably ApoUodorus of Artemita, in Mesopotamia. It is probably 

 to him that a Treatise on Islands and Cities has been ascribed by Tzetzes, 

 as also a History of the Partliians, and a History of Pontus. 



^3 Probably the author of that name, who wrote the History of Cyzicus, 

 is the person here referred to. He is called by Athenseus both a Baby- 

 lonian and a Cyzican. His work is entii'ely lost ; but it appears to have 

 been extensively read, and is referred to by Cicero and other ancient 

 writers. 



^* Of Neapolis. He wrote a History of Hannibal, and to him has 



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