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PLINT's natural history. [Book YIT. 
Asclepiades^^ the physician, Hesiod,^^ Anacreon,^^ Theo- 
pompus,^^ Hellanicus,^^ Damastes,^^ Ephorus,^^ Epigenes,^^ 
Eerosus,^^ Petosiris/^ ITecepsos,^* Alexander Polyhistor,^^ 
Xenophon,^^ Callimachus,^'^ Democritus/^ 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 modern times. It is supposed that he 
flouished in the fifth century before Christ. A great number of medical 
works, still extant, have been attributed to him : but there were many 
other physicians who either had, or assumed, this name. 
2* Of Prusa, in Bithynia. He is mentioned in c. 37 of this Book. See 
Note 44 in p. 183. 
25 Of Ascra, in Boeotia, the earliest of the Greek poets, with the excep- 
tion of Homer. His surviving works, are his " "Works and Days," and the 
Theogony." 
26 Of Teos, 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. 
2^ See end of B. ii. 28 g^g q-^^ jy^ 
29 See end of B. iv. 3o g^e end of B. iv. 
31 See end of B. ii. 
32 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. 
33 See end of B. ii. 34 ggg end of B. ii. 
'5 See end of B. iii. 36 ggg gj^j gf g [y 
See end of B. iv. 38 ggg gn^ gf {{ 
39 An Athenian, who wrote a history of Greece and Sicily in twenty-six 
or twenty-seven books, coming down to e.g. 298, from which time Psaon 
of Plataea continued it. 
^0 Of Lampsacus, a Peripatetic philosopher, and tutor of Ptolemy Phila- 
delphus. He succeeded Theophrastus, e.g. 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. 
*i 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. 
^3 Of Gyrene, the friend or disciple of Callimachus. He flourished 
under Ptolemy Philadelphus, about e.g. 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 e.g. Strabo speaks but slightingly 
of him ; and Cicero and Dionysius of Halicarnassus agree in looking upon 
