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303 BC (search for this): book 12, chapter 63
servations, nine hundred and seventy-four. ROMAN AUTHORS QUOTED.—M. Varro,See end of B. ii. Mucianus,See end of B. ii. Virgil,See end of B. vii. Fabianus,Fabianus Papirius: see end of B. ii. Sebosus,See end of B. ii. Pomponius Mela,See end of B. iii. Flavius,The son of a freedman; some further particulars are given of him by Pliny in B. xxxiii. c. 1. By his talents and eloquence, he attained considerable distinction at Rome. He was made a senator by Appius Claudius, and was curule ædile B.C. 303. He published a collection of legal rules, entitled the "Jus Flavianum." Procilius,See end of B. viii. Hyginus,See end of B. iii. Trogus,See end of B. vii. Claudius Cæsar,See end of B. v. Cornelius Nepos,See end of B. ii. Sextus NigerProbably the same as the Niger mentioned by Dioscorides as a writer on Materia Medica. He is also mentioned by Epiphanius and Galen; but Dioscorides charges him with numerous blunders in his accounts of vegetable productions. who wrote a Greek treatise on Medicin
129 BC (search for this): book 12, chapter 63
r on Materia Medica. He is also mentioned by Epiphanius and Galen; but Dioscorides charges him with numerous blunders in his accounts of vegetable productions. who wrote a Greek treatise on Medicine, Cassius Hemina,A compiler of Roman history, who wrote at the beginning of the second century before Christ. He wrote Annals of Rome from the earliest to his own times: only a few fragments of his work have survived. L. Piso,See end of B. ii. Tuditanus,C. Sempronius Tuditanus, consul of Rome, B.C. 129. He wrote a book of historical Commentaries. He was maternal grandfather of the orator Hortensius. Antias.See end of B. ii. FOREIGN AUTHORS QUOTED.—Theophrastus,See end of B. iii. Herodotus,See end of B. ii. Cal- listhenes,A native of Olynthus. His mother, Hero, was a cousin of the philosopher Aristotle, under whose tutelage he was educated. It is generally supposed that he was put to death by order of Alexander the Great, but in what manner is a matter of uncertainty. He wrote a History
38 BC (search for this): book 12, chapter 63
of Neapolis, who is supposed to have lived in the early part of the first century after Christ. Antseus,A writer on medicine, of whom all further particulars have perished. Ephippus,Possibly Ephippus of Olynthus, a Greek historian of the reign of Alexander the Great. Dion,See end of B. viii. Demodes,An ancient Greek historian, mentioned also by Strabo; but no further particulars are known of him. Ptolemy Lagus,The founder of the dynasty of the Egyptian Ptolemies, which ended in Cleopatra, B.C. 38: he wrote a narrative of the wars of Alexander, which is frequently quoted by the later writers, and served as the groundwork for Arrian's history. MarsyasA native of Pella, who wrote a history of Macedonia down to the wars of Alexander the Great. There was another writer of the same name, a native of Philippi, who also wrote a treatise, either geographical or historical, relative to Macedonia. of Macedon, ZoilusA native of Amphipolis, though some make him to have been an Ephesian. The age