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Hellanicus\ Damastes^, Eudoxus^, Dicsearclius'*, Timo- 
sthenes^, Eratosthenes^, Ephorus^, Crates the Grrammarian^, 
Serapion^ of Antioch, Callimachus^^, Artemidorus", Apol- 
lodorus Agathocles Eumachus Timseus the Sici- 
geographical works. There is Httle doubt that Herodotus extensively 
availed himself of this writer's works, though it is equally untrue that 
he has transcribed whole passages from him, as Porphyrins has ventured 
to assert. 
1 Of Mitylene, supposed to have flourished about B.C. 450. He ap- 
pears to have written numerous geographical and historical works, which, 
with the exception of a considerable number of fragments, are lost. 
2 Of Sigseum, a G-reek historian, contemporary with Herodotus. He 
wrote a history of Grreece, and several other works, all of which, with a 
few unimportant exceptions, are lost. 
3 See end of B. ii. * See end of B. ii. 
^ A Rhodian by birth. He was admiral of the fleet of Ptolemy Phila- 
delphus, who reigned from B.C. 285 to 247. He wrote a work " On 
Harbours," in ten books, which was copied by Eratosthenes, and is 
frequently quoted by ancient writers. Strabo also says that he com- 
posed poetry. ^ See end of B. ii. 
7 Of Cumse, or Cymse, in Ionia. He flourished about B.C. 408. He 
studied imder Isocrates, and gained considerable fame as a historian. 
Though anxious to disclose the truth, he has been accused of sometimes 
forcing his authorities to sviit his own views. Of his history of Grreece, 
and his essays on various subjects, a few fragments only survive. 
s A grammarian of Mallus, in Cilicia. He hved in the time of Ptolemy 
Philopater, and resided at Pergamus, under the patronage of Eumenes II. 
and Attains II. In his grammatical system he made a strong distinc- 
tion between criticism and grammar^ the latter of which sciences he re* 
garded as quite subordinate to the former. Of his learned commentaries 
on the Ihad and the Odyssey, only a few fragments have come down 
to us. ' See end of B. ii. 
1^ Of Gyrene, an Alexandrian grammarian and poet. He flourished 
at Alexandria, whither Ptolemy Philadelphus had invited him to a place 
in the Museum, Of his Hymns and Epigrams many are stiU extant. His 
Elegies, which were of considerable poetical merit, with the exception of 
a few fragments, have aU perished. Of his numerous other works in 
prose, not one is extant in an entire state. See end of B. ii. 
12 Probably ApoUodorus of Artemita, in Mesopotamia. It is probably 
to him that a Treatise on Islands and Cities has been ascribed by Tzetzes, 
^ also a History of the Parthians, and a History of Pontus. 
13 Probably the author of that name, who wrote the History of Cyzicus, 
is the person here referred to. He is called by Atheneeus both a Baby- 
lonian and a Cyzican. His work is entirely lost ; but it appears to have 
been extensively read, and is referred to by Cicero and other ancient 
writers. 
1* Of jS'eapolis. He wrote a History of Hannibal, and to him has 
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