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it were tedious to specify them accurately ; presently, 
however, Dionysus on whose account the Dionysian spec- 
tacles are celebrated, will be shown to be later than Moses. 
They say that Antiphon of Rhamnusium, the son of So- 
philus, first invented scholastic discourses and rhetorical 
figures, and was the first who pled causes for a fee, and 
wrote a forensic speech for delivery, as Diodorus says. 
And Apollodorus of Cuma first assumed the name of critic, 
and was called a grammarian. Some say it was Eratos- 
thenes of Cjrene who was first so called, since he pub- 
lished two books which he entitled Grammatica. The 
first who was called a grammarian, as we now use the term, 
was Praxiphanes, the son of Disnysophenes of Mitylene. 
Zeleucus the Locrian was reported to have been the first to 
have framed laws (in writing). Others say it was Menos the 
son of Zeus, in the time of Lynceus. He comes after 
Danaus, in the eleventh generation from Inachus and Moses, 
as we shall show a little further on. And Lycurgus, who 
lived many years after the taking of Troy, legislated for the 
Lacedaemonians a hundred and fifty years before the Olym- 
piads. We have spoken before of the age of Solon. Draco 
(he was a legislator too) is discovered to have lived about 
the three hundred and ninth Olympiad. Antilochus, again, 
who wrote of the learned men from the age of Pytliagoras 
to the death of Epicurus, which took place in the tenth day 
of the month Gamelion, makes up altogether three hundred 
and twelve years. Moreover, some say that Phanothea, the 
wife of Icarius, invented the heroic hexameter, others 
Themis, one of the Titanides. Didymus, however, in his 
work On the Pythagorean Philosophy, relates that Theano 
of Crotona was the first man who cultivated philosophy and 
composed poems. The Hellenic philosophy then, according 
to some, apprehended the truth accidentally, dimly, par- 
tially ; as others will have it, was set agoing by the devil- 
Several suppose that certain powers descending from heaven 
inspired the whole of philosophy. But if the Hellenic 
philosophy comprehends not the whole extent of the truth, 
and besides is destitute of strength to perform the com- 
