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osthenes\ Anticlides', Heraclides', Philemon'', Xenophon*, 

 Pytheas', Isidorus'', Philonides^ Xenagoras^ Astynomus^**, 

 Staphylus", Aristocritus'^, Metrodorus'^ Cleobulus", Posi- 

 donius**. 



* When he flourished is unknown. He is said by Hyginus to have 

 written a History of the Island of Naxos. 



2 He lived after the time of Alexander the Great ; but his age is un- 

 known. He wrote a book, irepi votrrtDv^ on the returns of the Greeks 

 fix)m their various expeditions, an account of Delos, a History of Alex- 

 ander the Great, and other works, all of which have perished. 



3 Of Heraclsea, in Pontus. He was a pupil of Plato, and, after him, 

 of Aristotle. His works upon philosophy, history, mathematics, and 

 other subjects, were very numerous ; but, unfortimately, they are nearly 

 all of them lost. He vnrote a Treatise upon Islands, and another upon 

 the Origin of Cities. 



* A geographical writer, of whom nothing ftirther is known. 



' The Greek historian, the disciple of Socrates, deservedly styled th« 

 *' Attic Bee." His principal works are the Anabasis, or the History of 

 the Expedition of the yomiger Cyrus and the Retreat of the Ten Thou- 

 sand ; the Hellenica, or History of Greece, from the time when that of 

 Thucydides ends to the battle of Mantinea, B.C. 362 ; and the Cyropsedia, 

 or Education of Cjrus. The greater portion of his works is now lost. 



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



* There were two physicians of this name, one of Catana, in SicUy, the 

 other of Dyrrhachium, in Illyricxmi, who, like liis namesake, was the 

 author of numerous works. It is doubtful, however, whether Pliny here 

 refers to either of those authors. 



' A Greek historian, quoted by Dionysius of Halicamassus. If the 

 same person as the father of the historian Nympliis, he must liave hved 

 in the early part of the second century B.C. He wrote a work on Islands, 

 and another entitled Xpovoi, or Chronicles. 



^^ A Greek geographer, who seems to have written an account of Cyprus. 



'^ He is quoted by Strabo, Athenseus, and the Scholiasts ; but all that 

 is known of him is, that he wrote a work on Thessaly, iEolia, Attica, 

 and Arcadia. 



** He wrote a work relative to Miletus ; but nothing further is knovra 

 of him. 13 gee end of B. iii. 



1* Probably a writer on geography, of whom no Darticulars are known. 



1* See end of B. ii. 



