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rean^ Philosopliers, Posidoniiis^, Anaximander^, Epigenes^ 
tlie philosoplier who wrote on Grnomonics, Euclid^, Coera- 
nus^ the philosoplier, Eudoxus^, Democritus^, Critodemus^, 
Thrasyllas^^, Serapion^^, Dicsearchus^^, Archimedes Onesi- 
1 "Pythagoricis" here may either mean the works of the followers of 
Pythagoras of Samos, or the books which were written by that philoso- 
pher. Phny, in Books 19, 20, and 24, speaks of several writhigs of Py- 
thagoras, and Diogenes Laertius mentions others ; but it is more gene- 
rally supposed that he wrote nothing, and that everything that passed by 
his name in ancient times was spurious. 
2 A Stoic philosopher of Apamea in Syria. He was the instructor of 
Cicero, and the friend of Pompey. He wrote works on history, divina- 
tion, the tides, and the nature of the gods. Some fragments only have 
survived. 
3 Of Miletus, was born B.C. 610, and was the successor of Thales, the 
founder of the Ionian school of philosophy. He is said to have first 
taught the obhquity of the echptic and the use of the gnomon. 
^ A philosopher of Rhodes or Byzantium. Seneca says that he boasted 
of having studied astronomy among the Chaldeans. He is mentioned by 
Yarro and Columella as having written on rural matters, and is praised 
by Censoriaus, 
^ Of Alexandria, the great geometrician, and instructor of Ptolemy I. 
He was the founder of the mathematical school of Alexandria. 
^ He was a Grreek by birth, and Hved in. the time of Nero. He is 
extoUed by Tacitus, B. 14, for his superlative wisdom, beyond which 
nothing is known of him. 
7 Of Cnidus, an astronomer and legislator who flourished B.C. 366. He 
was a friend and disciple of Plato, and said to have been the first who 
taught in Grreece the motions of the planets. His works on astronomy 
and geometry are lost, but his Phsenomena have been preserved by Aratus, 
who turned his prose into verse. 
s Born at Abdera in Thrace, about B.C. 460. He was one of the founders 
of the atomic theory, and looked upon peace of mind as thestmmum honum 
of mortals. He wrote works on the nature and organization of the world, 
on physics, on contagious maladies,on the chameleon, and on other subjects. 
9 A Grecian astronomer. A work of his, called " Apotelesmatica," is 
said to be preserved in the Imperial Library at Yienna. 
^0 An astrologer of Ehodes, patronized by Augustus and Tiberius. He 
wrote a work on Stones, and a History of Egypt. Tacitus, in his 'Annals, 
B. vi., speaks highly of his skill in astrology. 
^1 A geographer of Antioch, and an opponent of the views of Erato- 
sthenes. Cicero declares that he himself was unable to understand a 
thousandth part of his work. 
12 A Peripatetic philosopher and geographer, of Messina in Sicily. He 
studied under Aristotle and wrote several works, the principal of which 
was an account of the history, geography, and moral and rehgious con- 
dition of Grreece. A few fragments only are extant. 
Of Syracuse, the most famous mathematician of antiquity, born B.C. 
