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PLIi^y's NATUBAL HISTOEX. 
[Book IV. 
lian\ Myrsilus^, Alexander Polyliistor ^, Thucydides ^, 
Dosiades^, Anaximander ^, Philistides Mallotes^, Dio- 
nysius ^, Aristides ^, Callidemus Menaeclimus Agla- 
been ascribed a Description of the Universe, of which a fragment still 
survives. 
1 Of Tauromenium, in Sicily ; a celebrated historian, who flourished 
about the year B.C. 300. He was banished from Sicily by Agathocles, 
and passed his exile at Athens. He composed a History of Sicily, 
from the earhest times to the year B.C. 264. The value of his history 
has been gravely attacked by Polybius ; but there is httle doubt that it 
possessed very considerable merit. Of this, and other works of Timseus, 
only a few fragments survive. 
2 A Grreek historian ; a native of Lesbos. V^Hien he Hved is unknown. 
Dionysius, of Hahcarnassus, has borrowed from him a portion of his ac- 
count of the Pelasgians. He is said to have been the author of the notion 
that the Tyrrhenians, in consequence of their wanderings after they left 
their original settlement, got the name of TreXapyoi, or " storks." He is 
supposed to have written a History of Lesbos, as also a work called 
*' Historical Paradoxes." ^ end of B. iii. * See end of B. iii. 
5 Of this author nothing whatever seems to be known. 
^ Of Miletus, born B.C. 610. One of the earhest philosophers of the 
Ionian school, and said to be a pupil of Thales. Unless Pherecydes of 
Scyros be an exception, he was the first author of a philosophical treatise 
ill G-reek prose. Other writings are ascribed to him by Suidas ; but, no 
doubt, on insufficient grounds. Of his treatise, which seems to have 
contained summary statements of his opinions, no remains exist. 
7 Of this writer nothing whatever is known, beyond the fact that, 
from his name, he seems to have been a native of Mallus, in Cihcia. 
3 It seems impossible to say which, out of the vast number of the 
authors who bore this name, is the one here referred to. It is not im- 
probable that Dionysius of Chalcis, a Grreek historian who lived before 
the Christian era, is meant. He wrote a work on the Foundation of 
Towns, in five books, which is frequently referred to by the ancients. It 
is not probable that the author of the Periegesis, or " Description of the 
World," is referred to, as that book bears internal marks of having been ^ 
compiled in the third or fourth century of the Christian era. 
^ Of Miletus. He was the author of the Milesiaca," a romance of 
licentious character, which was translated into Latin by L. Cornelius 
Sisenna. He is looked upon as the inventor of the Grreek romance, and 
the title of his work is supposed to have given rise to the term Milesian, 
as apphed to works of fiction. 
1" A Greek author, of whom nothing is known, except that Phny, 
and after him Solinus, refer to him as the authority for the statement 
that Euboea was originally caUed Chalcis, from the fact of (xaX/cos) copper 
being first discovered there. 
^1 Probably Mensechmus of Sicyon, who wrote a book on Actors, a 
History of Alexander the Grreat, and a book on Sicyon, Suidas says 
that he flourished in the time of the successors of Alexander. 
