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 Chap. 37.] ACCOTJNT OF COUlfTEIES, ETC. 371 Hellamcus Damastes^, Eudoxiis', Dicaearchiis^, Timo- sthenes^, Eratosthenes^, Ephorus', Crates the Grrammarian', Serapion' of Antioch, Callimachus^", Artemidorus^^ Apol- lodorus ^^, Agathocles ^^, Eumachus ^'*, Timaeus the Sici- geographical works. There is Httlo doubt that Herodotus extensively availed himself of tliis -wTiter's works, though it is equally untrue that he has transcribed whole passages from him, as Porphyrins has ventured to assert. ^ Of Mitylene, supposed to have flourished about B.C. 450. He ap- pears to have written nvunerous geographical and historical works, which, with the exception of a considerable number of fragments, are lost. 2 Of Sigseum, a Greek liistorian, contemporary with Herodotus. He wrote a history of Greece, 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. delphus, who reigned from B.C. 385 to 247. He wi-ote 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 Cuma?, or Cyma?, in Ionia. He flourished about B.C. 108. He studied imdcr Isocrates, and gained considerable fame as a historian. Though anxious to disclose the truth, he has been accused of sometimes forcing his authorities to suit his own views. Of his historj' of Greece, and his essays on various subjects, a few fragments only survive. 8 A grammarian of MaUus, in CiUcia. He lived in the time of Ptolemy PhUopater, and I'csided 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 whidi seienees 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. ^*^ Of Cyrene, an Alexandrian grammarian and poet. He flourished at Alexandria, whither Ptolemy Pliiladelphus had invited him to a place in the Museum. Of liis Hymns and Epigrams many are still extant. His Elegies, which were of considerable poetical merit, with the excei)tion of a few fragments, have all perished. Of his numerous other works in prose, not one is extant in an entire state. ** See end of 1{. ii. ^2 Probably ApoUodorus of Artemita, in Mesopotamia. It is probably to him that a Treatise on Islands and Cities has been ascribed by Tzetzes, as also a History of the Partliians, and a History of Pontus. ^ Probably the author of that name, wlio wrote tlic History of Cyzicus, is the jierson here referred to. He is called by Athenivus both a Baby- lonian and a Cyzican. His work is entin-ly lost ; but it ajipeurs to liavo been extensively read, and is referred to by Cicero and ollu-r ancient writers. ^* Of Ncapolis. He An'ote a History of Hannibal, and to him has o ,, o «.> Ji .u
 * A Rhodian by bu'th. He was admiral of the fleet of Ptolemy Phila-