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tauder of Athens, Eacchius of Miletus, Eion of Soli, 
Ciisereas the Athenian, Diodorus of Priene, Dion the 
Colophonian, Epigenes the Ehodian, Euagon of Thasos, 
Euphronius of Athens, Hegesias of Maronea, the Me- 
nanders of Priene and of Heraclea, Meneerates the poet, 
Androtion who wrote on Agriculture, JEschrion who wrote 
on Agriculture, Lysimachus who wrote on Agriculture, 
Dionysius who translated Mago, Diophanes who made an 
epitome of the work of Dionysius, King Archelaus,^^ I^icander.^^ 
^2 The most famous among the soothsayers of Alexander the Great. He 
probably wrote the work on Prodigies, which is referred to by Pliny in 
B. xvii. c. 38, and elsewhere, as also by Lucian the satirist. 
A writer on Agriculture, mentioned also by Yarro and Columella. 
See end of B. vi. 
A writer on Agriculture, mentioned also by Varro and Columella. 
A writer on Agriculture, mentioned also by Varro and Columella. 
^'^ A writer on Agriculture, mentioned also by Varro and Columella, 
^8 See end of B. ii. 
19 A writer on Agriculture, mentioned also by Varro and Columella. 
20 Or Euphonius, a writer on Agriculture, also mentioned by Varro and 
Columella. Nothing further is known relative to him. 
21 See end of B. vii. 
22 Menander of Priene was a writer on Agriculture, mentioned also by 
Varro and Columella. Menander of Heraclea was a writer on Agricul- 
ture, mentioned also by Varro. 
23 A poet who wrote on Agriculture, mentioned also by Varro. It is 
not improbable that he is the same person with the Meneerates of Smyrna, 
the author of two epigrams in the Greek Anthology. 
2^ A Greek writer on Agriculture, who wrote before the time of Theo- 
phrastus, by whom he is mentioned, as also by Athenseus and Varro. 
25 He is mentioned also by Varro, but nothing is known of him. 
26 He is often referred to by Varro and Columella. He is also sup- 
posed to have been the writer of a History of Thebes, mentioned by the 
Scholiast and Apollonius Rhodius, B. iii. 
2'^ Cassius Dionysius of Utica. He translated into Greek the twenty- 
eight Books on Husbandry written by Mago the Carthaginian, in the 
Punic language. Of Mago nothing further is known. 
28 Diophanes of Bithynia made an epitome of the same work in Greek, 
and dedicated it to King Deiotarus. Columella styles Mago the Father of 
Agriculture. 
29 Made king of Cappadocia by Antony, b.c. 34, He died at Rome, at 
an advanced age, a.d. 17. Plutarch attributes to King Archelaus — if, in- 
deed, this was the same — a treatise on Minerals. 
30 A native of Claros, near Colophon, in Ionia. It is not a matter of 
certainty, but it is most probable, that he lived in the reign of Ptolemy V., 
who died b.c. 181. He was a poet, grammarian, and physician. His 
*^ Theriaca," a poem on the wounds inllicted by venomous animals, still 
exists, as also another called " Alexipharmia." 
