148 PLiinr's nattjeal history. [Book II. 
Fabianus\ Antias^, Mucianus^, Csecina^, who wrote on the 
Etruscan discipline, Tarquitius^, who did the same, Julius 
Aquila^, who also did the same, and Sergius''. 
EoEEiON ATJTHOES QUOTED. — Plato^, Hipparchus*, Ti- 
mseus^*^, Sosigenes^\ Petosiris^^ JSecepsos^^, the Pythago- 
1 Fabianus Papmus, a Koman rhetorician and naturalist, whose works 
are higKLy commended by Pliny and Seneca. He wrote a History of Ani- 
mals, and a book on Natural Causes. 
2 Quintus Valerius Antias. He flourished about B.C. 80, and wrote 
the Annals of Rome, down to the time of Sylla. 
3 Marcus Licinius Crassus Mucianus. He was instrumental in raising 
the Emperor Yespasian to the throne, and was Consul in the years 
A.D. 52, 70, and 74. He pubhshed three Books of Epistles, and a History 
in eleven Books, which appears to have treated chiefly of Eastern afiairs. 
Aulus Csecina. He was sent into exile by Csesar, joined the Pom- 
peians in Africa, and was taken prisoner by Caesar, but his life was spared. 
Cicero wrote several letters to him, and commends his abihties. His 
work appears to have been on Divination as practised by the Etrurians, 
^ He appears to have been a diviner or soothsayer of Etruria, and to 
have written a work on Etruscan prodigies. 
6 He also wrote a work on Etruscan divination, but it does not appear 
that anything further is known of him. 
7 Sergius Paulus. He is also mentioned in the Index to the 18th Book. 
Nothing further seems to be known of liim. 
s The greatest, with the exception of Aristotle, of the Greek Philoso- 
phers, and the disciple of Socrates. 
9 A native of Nicea in Bithynia, who flourished B.C. 160. He is called 
the "Father" of Astronomy. He wrote a Commentary on the Phseno- 
mena of Aratus and Eudoxus, wliich is still extant. His works, including 
those on the Lunar Month and the Fixed Stars, have not come down to 
us. His Catalogue of the Stars is preserved in the Almagest of Ptolemy. 
10 Timseus of Locri in Italy, a Pythagorean philosopher, said to have 
been the instructor of Plato. He vsrote a work on Mathematics. A work 
" On the Soul of the World and of Nature," which is stiU extant, has 
been ascribed to him, but on doubtful grounds. 
^1 An astronomer and peripatetic philosopher of Alexandria. He was 
employed by Juhus Caesar to superintend his revision of the Calendar. 
It is supposed that he wrote a work on the Celestial Revolutions, and a 
Commentary on the works of Aristotle. 
^2 A priest, mathematician, and astrologer of Egypt. A Letter on 
the Astrological Sciences, written by him to King Necepsos, is said to be 
extant in the Royal Library at Yienna, as also a work called the " Orga- 
num Astrologicum," dedicated to the same king. Juvenal seems to use 
his name as a common term for an astrologer. 
He is mentioned by Juhus Firmicus as "a most just emperor of Egypt, 
and a very good astronomer." A work by him is quoted by G-alen in hia 
tenth Book on Simples, but it was most probably of spurious origin. 
