116 plint's nattikaIi histoet. [Book VI. 



the Younger Simonides,'* Basilis,'' Xenophon" of Lamp- 

 sacus. 



'* Said to have been a native of Meroe, and to have written a History 

 of iGtbiopia ; nothing else seems to be known of him. 



™ The author of a work on India, of which the second Book is quoted by 

 Athenseus. From what Pliny says, in c. 35, he seems to have also written 

 on Ethiopia. He is mentioned by Agatharohides as one of the writers on 

 the East : but nothing more seems to be known of him. 



" See end of B. iii. 



