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PLIlfT's NATURAL HISTORY. 
[Book XII. 
Zoilus*^ of Macedon, Democritus/^ Amphiloehus/* Aristo- 
machus/^ Alexander Polyhistor/® Juba/^ Apollodorus^® who 
wrote on Perfumes, Heraclides"*^ the physician, Archidemus^*^ 
the physician, Dionysius^^ the physician, Democlides^^ the 
physician, Euphron^^ the physician, Mnesides^^ the physician, 
Diagoras^^ the physician, lollas^^ the physician, Heraclides''^ 
of Tarentum, Xenocrates^ of Ephesus, Eratosthenes.^^ 
wars of Alexander the Great. There was another writer of the same name, 
a native of Philippi, who also wrote a treatise, either geographical or his- 
torical, relative to Macedonia. 
^'^ A native of Amphipolis, though some make him to have been an 
Ephesian. The age in which he lived is not exactly known. He attacked 
the writings of Homer with such uncalled-for asperity, that his name has 
been proverbial for a snarling, captious critic. He is said to have met 
with a violent death. His literary productions were numerous, but none 
of them have come down to us. 
See end of B. ii. 44 ggg g^d of B. viii. 
45 See end of B. xi. 46 gee end of B. iii. 
See end of B. v. 48 See end of B. xi. 
49 A physician of Heraclea, near Ephesus. He wrote commentaries on 
the works of Hippocrates. 
^0 Nothing is known of him ; but it has been suggested that he may 
have been the author of a few fragments on veterinary surgery which still 
exist. 
5^ There were many physicians and surgeons of this name, but probably 
Bionysius of Samos is meant, or else Sallustius Dionysius, quoted by Pliny, 
B. xxxii. c. 26. 
^'^ Also called Democedes, a physician of Crotona, who practised at 
JEgina. He was afterwards physician to Polycrates, tiie tyrant of Samos, 
and King Darius, whose foot he cured. His work on medicine has pe- 
rished. 
^'^ Nothing whatever is known of this writer. 
^4 Nothing is known relative to this writer. 
Nothing is known of him. 
^6 Or lolaus, a native of Bithynia, who wrote a work on Materia Medica. 
He was probably a contemporary of Heraclides of Tarentum, in the third 
century B.C. 
^"^ A plrysician of Tarentum, who belonged to the Empiric sect. He 
wrote several medical works, and is highly commended by Galen, Only a 
few fragments of his writings remain. 
An historical and geographical writer, frequently quoted by Pliny. 
From the mention made of him in B. xxxvii. c. 2, it would appear that he 
flourished during the time of Pliny, or very shortly before. 
&9 See end of B. ii. 
