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318 BC (search for this): book 7, chapter 38
Maximus, B. viii. c. 7, and by Plutarch.—B. Chersiphron, also, the Cnossian,Mentioned in B. xxxvi. c. 31. was rendered fa- mous by the admirable construction of the temple of Diana at Ephesus; Philon, by the construction of the basin at Athens, which was capable of containing one thousand vessels;Val. Maximus refers to Philon and his public works, in B. viii. c. 12. —B. He was an architect of eminence in the reign of the successors of Alexander. He built for Demetrius Phalereus, about B.C. 318, the portico of twelve Doric columns to the great temple at Eleusis. He also formed a basin in the Piræus, which was destroyed at the taking of Athens by the Romans under Sylla. Cte- sibius, by the invention of pneumatics and hydraulic machines; and Dinochares,See B. v. c. 11, and B. xxxiv. c. 42. by the plan which he made of the city of Alexandria, founded by Alexander in Egypt. The same monarch, too, by public edict, declared that no one should paint his portrait except Apelles, and that no