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pliny's natural history. 
[Book VI. 
the Younger Simonides,^^ Basilis,^^ Xenophon^^ of Lamp- 
sacus. 
25 Said to have been a native of Meroe, and to have written a History 
of Ethiopia ; nothing else seems to be known of him. 
The author of a work on India, of which the second Book is quoted by 
Athenaeus. From what Pliny says, in c. 35, he seems to have also written 
on JEthiopia. He is mentioned by Agatharchides as one of the writers on 
the East : but nothing more seems to be known of him. 
2' See end of B. iii. 
