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 Chap. 37.] AccoryT of corNXEiES, etc. 373 osthenes Anticlides-, Heraclides^ Pliilemon", Xenoplion*, Pytheas^ Isidorus^, Pliiloiiides^, Xenagoras^, Astynomus'", Staphylus", Aristocritus'^, Metrodorus '^, Cleobidus^*, Posi- donius'^. written a History of the Island of Naxos. 2 He lived after the time of Alexander the Great ; but his age is un- known. He -oTote a book, Trepi v6(jtu)v, on the retm-ns of the Greeks from their various expeditions, an account of Delos, a History of Alex- ander the Great, and other works, all of which have perished. 3 Of Heraclaea, m Pontus. He was a pupil of Plato, and, after him, of Aristotle. His works upon philosophy, history, mathematics, and other subjects, were veiy numerous ; but, imfortmiately, they are nearly all of them lost. He wrote a Treatise upon Islands, and another upon the Origin of Cities. ■* A geographical writer, of whom nothing further is known. 5 The Greek historian, the disciple of Socrates, deservedly styled the " Attic Bee." His principal works arc the Anabasis, or the History of the Expedition of the younger Cyrus and the Retreat of the Ten Thou- sand ; the Hellenica, or Historv' of Greece, from the time when that of Thucydides ends to the battle of IMantinea, B.C. 362 ; and the Cyropa^dia, or Education of Cyi-us. The greater portion of his works is now lost. 6 See end of B. ii. 7 See end of B, ii. 8 There were two physicians of this name, one of Catana, in Sicily, the other of Dyrrhachium, in Illyricum, who, like his namesake, was the author of numerous works. It is doubtful, however, whether PHny here refers to either of those authors. ' A Greek historian, quoted by Dionysius of Hahcamassus. If the same person as the father of the historian lS'ymi)liis, he must have hved in the early part of the second centurv- B.C. He wrote a work on Islands, and another entitled Xpovoi, or Clu-onicles. ^•^ A Greek geographer, who seems to have wTitten an account of C^-p^us. " He is quoted by Strabo, Athenseus, and the Schohasts ; but all that is known of him is, that he wi-ote a work on Thessaly, ^olia, Attica, and Arcadia. 12 He ^^Tote a work relative to IMiletus ; but nothing further is known of him. 13 See end of B. iii. 1** Probably a writer on geography, of whom no narticulara are known. ^* See end of B. ii.
 * When he flourished is unknown. He is said by Hyginus to have