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chus* of Sicyon, Eudoxus^, Antigenes', Callicrates'*, Xeno- 

 phon* of Lampsacus, Diodonis® of Syracuse, Hanno'^, Him- 

 ilco", Nympliodorus^ Calliphanes*", Artemidorus", Meg- 

 asthenes^^, Isidorus", Cleobulus^'*, and Aristocreon^*. 



Periander of Corinth, one of the Seven Wise Men, who wrote a didactic 

 poem, containing moral and poUtical precepts, in 2000 hnes ; and, 2. a 

 physician and bad poet, contemporary with Archidamas, the son of 

 Agesilaiis. It is uncertain to which PHny here refers. 



^ Probably a writer on geography. Nothing appears to be known 

 of him. 



' Of Cyzicns, see end of B. ii. ; of Cnidos, see end of B. iv. 



* A Greek historian, who appears, firom Plutarch, to have written a 

 history of the expeditions of Alexander the Great. 



* See end of B. iii. ' See end of B. iii. • See end of B. iii. 

 ^ The author of the Periplus,or voyage wliich he performed round a part 



of Libya, of wliieh we have a Greek translation from the Punic original. 

 His age is not known, but PHny states (B. ii. c. 67, and B. v. c. 1) that 

 the voyage was imdertaken in the most flourishing days of Carthage. It 

 has been considered on the whole, that he may be probably identified 

 with Hanno, the son or the father of Hamilcar, who was slain at 

 Himera, B.C. 480. 



8 Mentioned also by Pliny, B. ii. o. 67, as having conducted a voyage 

 of discovery from Gaaes towards the north, along the western shores of 

 Europe, at the same time that Hanno proceeded on his voyage along the 

 western coast of Africa. He is repeatedly quoted by Festus Avienus, in 

 his geographical poem called Ora Maritima. His voyage is said to have 

 lasted fom* months, but it is impossible to judge how far it extended. 



» See end of B. iii. '« See end of B. iii. " See end of B. ii 



^2 A Greek geographer, and friend of Seleucus Nicator, by whom he 

 was sent on an embassy to Sandrocottus, king of the Prasii, whose 

 capital was Pahbothra, a town probably in the vicinity of the present 

 Patna. Whether he had accompanied Alexander on his invasion of 

 India is quite uncertain. He wrote a work on India in four books, to 

 wliich tlie subsequent Greek writers were chiefly indebted for their 

 accounts of India. Arrian speaks highly of him as a writer, but Strabo 

 impeaches his veracity ; and we find Pliny hinting the same in B. vL 

 c. 21. Of his work only a few fragments survive. 



« See end of B. ii. " See end of B. iv. 



** There was a philosopher of this name, a nephew of Chrysippus, and 

 his pupil ; but it is not known whether he is the person referred to, in 

 C. 10, either as having written a work on universal geography, or on that 

 of Egypt. 



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