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1888 AD (search for this): book 16, chapter 14
14.117.8). Cp. Beloch, Griechische Geschichte （2）, 3.2.25 and 12. He was war reporter to Alexander. wrote the history of the events in the Hellenic world in ten books and closed with the capture of the shrine and the impious act of Philomelus the Phocian. DiyllusMuch uncertainty reigns as to the number and arrangement of the books of his history. The usual reading of the editors here, 27, conflicts with 26 in Book 21.5. Beloch (op. cit. 3.2.26) believes 27 in this passage correct and 26 in Book 21.5 a scribal error. Rühl in Neue Jahrbücher für Philologie, 137 (1888), 123 ff. thinks Diyllus wrote a history in three parts, sunta/ceis of 27 books, nine in each part, beginning with the Sacred War and ending with the death of Cassander. the Athenian began his history with the pillaging of the shrine and wrote twenty-six books, in which he included all the events which occurred in this period both in Greece and in Sicily.