nee 
which hence se the name of * Naupaetus. ”' The war- 
d. rapacio s /Etolians, whofe leader Oxylus was 
the vicinity of mount Pindus, cheerfully deferted the gloomy 
folitude of their woods, in order to 
asteeable, and better cultivated co 
reinforcements, the Heraclide Fducdiled their a 
By fecret intrigues they eons a party in Lacedemon; and 
before they fet fail, they prudently detached a ‘io dy 
te oa Melfenia fubmitted to their arms. 
was complete, but not without great pels of oer 
cient inhabitants, many of whom emigrated, whilit vito 
were reduced to flavery. The Heraclidx, according to the 
cuftom of that age, divided their new acquifitions by-lot. 
The kingdom of Argos fell to the thare of Temenus; Cref- 
phontes obtained Meffenia ; and, as Ariftodemus happened 
then to die, Laconia was afligned to his infant fons, the 
twin brothers, Euryfthenes and Procles. Cori was 
beltowed on their kinfman Aletes ; and Els, given to Oxylus, 
their brave /Etolian aes The reit of the territory was 
divided amongthe warlike Dorians and /Etolians, who had 
ie for heuichoens and not for their leaders; and 
having over-run, withont oppofition, the fineft pro- 
tides of the Pelo: Us, would not be difpofed to lead a 
ife of hardfhip- wae mifery in their native mountains 
Partition of the Peloponnefus occurred in the year 1 102 
Gillies’s Hitt. Anc. Greece, yol.i. See PzLoronNesus, 
and the next article. 
Her: ACLID.R, return of the, inta Peloponnefus, is a cele- 
brated epocha in the ancient chronology. 
The time of this return is differently aflig gned 5 becaufe 
authors take the different attempts which t ade to 
return, for the return itfelf. The fir sie was twenty 
years before the taking of Troy ; the fecond was ah hundred 
years later, or eighty years after the taking of Troy: 
B.C. 1104. This lait is fuppofed to have fucceeded ; at 
leatt, according to Petavius, who mentions only thefe two. 
Temp. p. 1. lib. i. ‘cap. 12. and Doét. lib. ix. 
r diftinguifhes three attempts; and fixes the 5 
fifty ye years ‘later than —) Vik. ‘thir irty years after the 
ng of Troy. He fays nothing of the fecond, hick 
was unfortunate, like the firft ; ee = places the third in 
the fame year with Petavius. See th 
“ap. 30. 
tha ae 
i — infomuch that fearce a “ee or — but = 
turned upfide down thereby, the return of the Herachigiis 
of the beginning of profine _— 
he aeped fabulou Aceting 
and “Theapempe 
ories from 
ERACLIDES of atone in » a phy 
7 ae and di sr 
park pe are art] a 
Y: un ” 
» Vou. XVII. eer 
of eq ua 
HER. 
ciple of Plates He wrote a treatife “On the Caufes of 
Difeafes,” and another on The Difeafe in mer the Refpi- 
ration is fufpended,”? (wsgh re ave 3) a dif uch Empe- 
t docles boaited of having cured, when of See aoe dura. 
ited tion. See 
Heractines of Tarentum, a phyfician of the fed of 
Empirics, on whom Celius Aurelianus, Galen, and Aétius 
have beilowed asp es praife. Galen confidered him as 
the molt’eminent and able aden of that feét, and as 
having pofleffeda degree of knowledge ‘and: practica 2 fkill 
to that of any of his contemporarie 8, ms to 
have made a more liberal ufe of active medicaments, efpcily 
of the narcotic clafs, than his predeceffors ; and was very in- 
duftrious in his invelligation of animal, vegetable, and saldesal 
fubftauces, sors a view to enrich the catalogue of the materia 
medica. ‘I'o the books which he wrote _ this ern he 
gave the name of the individuals to m-he dedicated 
them, according to Galen, oe one “ "Altye amas,’’ and 
another “ Antiochis.” wife wrote on the fubjeét of 
diet, and the regimen to be obferved i n difeafes, in which 
ab{tinence feems to have becn puthed toa great extent. Sec 
Le Clerc. Hilt. de la Medecine, partii. Cal. Aurel. Acu- 
tor. lib. it cap. 9. 
HERACLITISM, in Antiquity, denotes the philofo hy 
of Heraclitus, who was born at Ephefus, and flo 
about the fixty-ninth Olympiad. ‘This philofopher was the 
founder of a feét, derived pon Pythagoras, the parchit of 
the Italic fchool. In early life he manifefted a propenfity 
of wifdom, and was initiated into the my Bese ries 
orean doétrine by Xenophanes and Hip 
dy ‘ticorpotated them into his own fyflem. 
detined the fupreme magiftracy of Ephefus, iting! ws 
fered him ; and when he was afterwards obiers 
the earth. Pr 
him to his court, treate 
His d diet, and mode of life, at len sof price tp a  dropfy, 
for which he could obtain no relief tro 3; and 
he therefore att . 4 cure hf, by raat hil 
up ina clofe ftab l, an 
the manner of his seat 
tained 
is not afcer 
5 ie it he was eeeaity snes 6 pri on account of 
the vices of mankind, and particular arly a . 
But the fable is probably as od gee as that as ie per- 
aces 
“ ae, » = Sapi 
Ridebat 
, alter 
» quoties a * se moveret un 
Protuleratque pedem ; flebat siete: alter” 
« Will you not now the of Se praife 
po <= el ile 
pene ae 
hea one con — 
— One Fea neem oe om a 
Drydea, 
4P The 
