Chap. 84.] SITMMAET. 355 



Virgil,™ Varro," Luoilius,'" Metellua Scipio," Cornelius Cel- 

 suB,*' Nigidius,^ Trebius Niger,'* Pomponiua Mela,^ Mami- 

 lius Sura.** 



FoEBiGN AUTHOES OTOiEB. — King Juba," Polybius,^ Hero- 

 dotus,™ Antipater,"* Aristotle,'' Demetrius ^ the physician, De- 

 mocritus,'" Theophrastus,'* Euanthes,'* Agriopas,'^ who wrote 



and was a contemporary of Celsus and Seneca. He is supposed to hare 

 resided at Borne, and from his works it appears that he visited Syria and 

 Gilicia. It has been conjectured that he died at Tarentum. His great 

 work is a systematic treatise upon Agriculture, divided into Twelve Books. 



'8 See end of B. vii. " See end of B. ii. , 



^ C. Lucilius, the first Boman satirical poet of any importance, was 

 bom B.C. 148, and died B.C. 103. From Juvenal we learn that he was 

 born at Suessa of the Aurunci, and from Velleius Paterculus and Horace 

 other particulars respecting him. He is supposed to have been either the 

 maternal grand-uncle or maternal grandfather of Pompeius Magnus. If 

 not absolutely the inventor of fioman satire, he was the first to mould it 

 into that form which was afterwards fully developed by Horace, Juvenal, 

 and Perseus. He is spoken of in high terms as a writer by Cicero, 

 Horace, and Quintilian. 



" The father of Cornelia, the wife of Pompeius Magnus. After his 

 defeat by Cssar at the battle of Thapsus, he stabbed himself, and leaped 

 into the sea. In what way he distinguished himself as an author, does 

 not appear. 



6» See end of B. vii. ^ See end of B. vi, 



8* He was one of the companions of L. Lucullus, proconsul in Bstica, 

 the province of Spain, B.C. 150. His work on Natural History is several 

 times referred to by Pliny. ^^ See end of B. iii. 



86 A writer on Agriculture, mentioned by Varro and Columella. No- 

 thing more seems to be known of him. 



8' See end of B. v. 68 gee end of B. iv. 



89 See end of B. ii. 



* Of Tarsus, a Stoic philosopher, the disciple and successor of Diogenes, 

 and the teacher of Panaetius, about B.C. 144. Of his personal history but 

 little is known. Mention is made of his History of Animals by the 

 Scholiast upon Apollonius Ehodius. 



9' See end of B. ii. 



"' There were several physicians of this name ; one was a native of 

 Apamea in Bithynia, a follower of Herophilus, who flourished in the third 

 or second century n.o. ; another lived about the same period, and is by 

 some supposed to have been the same as the last. No particulars seem to 

 be known of the individual here mentioned. 



'3 See end of B. ii. »* See end of B. iii. 



'* Of Miletus. He wrote on mythical subjects, and is mentioned as 

 an author by Diogenes Laertius ; but nothing further seems to have been 

 known respecting him. 



96 Some of the MSS. call him Acopas, or Copas. He was the author of 



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