242 PLTNt's NATUEAl HISTOBT. [Book VII. 



4solepiades»* the physician, Hesiod,'' Anacreon,'" Theo- 

 poj^pus,'" Hellanicus,'* Damastes,''' Ephorus,'" Epigenes," 

 ^rosus,'* Petosiris," NeoepsoB,'* Alexander Polyhistor,'' 

 Xenophon,'* CaUimachus,*' DemocrituB/' Diyllus'' the his- 

 torian, Strabo,*" who wrote against the Euremata of Epho- 

 rus, Heraclides Ponticus,*' Aclepiades," who wrote the 

 Tragodoumena, Philostephanus," Hegesias," Archima- 



celebrated physician of ancient or modem times. It is supposed that he 

 flouished in the fifth century before Christ. A great mimber of medical 

 works, still extant, have been attributed to him : but there were many 

 other physicians who either had, or assumed, this name. 



^ Of Prusa, in Bithynia. He is mentioned in c. 37 of this Book. See 

 Note 44 in p. 183. 



" Of Ascra, in Boeotia, the earliest of the Greek poets, with the excep- 

 tion of Homer. His surviTlng works, are his " 'Works and Days," and the 

 "Theogony." 



^ Of Teoa, in Asia Minor, famous for his amatory and lyric poems ; he 

 died at the age of eighty-five. Pliny mentions the supposed mode of his 

 death, in c 5, of the present Book. 



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



«» See end of B. iv. '» See end of B. iv. 



" See end of B. ii. 



" A priest of Belus, at Babylonia, and a historian of the time of Alex- 

 ander the Great. He wrote a History of Babylonia, of which some frag- 

 ments are preserved by the ecclesiastical writers. 



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



'* See end of B. iii. ^ See end of B. iv. 



" See end of B. iv. ^s gge end of B. ii. 



" An Athenian, who wrote a history of Greece and Sicily in twenty-six 

 or twenty-seven books, coming down to B.C. 298, from which time Psaon 

 of Platsea continued it. 



•" Of Lampsacus, a Peripatetic philosopher, and tutor of Ptolemy Phila- 

 delphus. He succeeded Theophrastus, b.c. 288, as head of that school. 

 He devoted himself to the study of natural science, and appears to have 

 held a pantheistic system of philosophy. By Cudworth, Leibnitz, and 

 others, he has been charged with atheism. The " Euremata" of Ephorus, 

 here mentioned, was a book which treated of inventions. 



" See end of B. iv. 



*' Of Tragilus, in Thrace, a disciple and contemporary of Isocrates. 

 His book, here mentioned, treated on the subjects chosen by the Greek 

 tragic writers, and the manner in which they had dealt with them. 



** Of Cyrene, the friend or disciple of Callimachus. He flourished 

 under Ptolemy Philadelphus, about b.c. 249. He wrote works on places 

 in Asia, on Elvers, and on Islands ; but none of his compositions have 

 survived. 



** A native of Magnesia, who wrote on rhetoric and history, probably in 

 the early part of the third century B.C. Straho speaks but slightingly 

 of him ; and Cicero and Dionyslus of Halicamassus agree in looking upon 



