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1 See the Introduction to Vol. 111.
2 See end of B. iii.
3 See end of B. ii.
4 See end of B. ii.
5 A writer on flowers and chaplets, in the time of Tiberius. Nothing whatever beyond this seems to be known of him.
6 C. Julius Atticus Vestinus, or, according to some authorities, M. Atticus Vestinus. He was consul a.d. 65; and, though innocent, was put to death by Nero's order, for alleged participation in the conspiracy of Piso.
7 See end of B. xiv.
8 See end of B. iii.
9 See end of B. iii.
10 See end of B. xiv.
11 See end of B. vii.
12 See end of B. xvi.
13 See end of B. xx.
14 See end of B. xix.
15 See end of B. xii.
16 See end of B. xx.
17 See end of B. xx. See also B. xxv. c. 5.
18 See end of B. iii.
19 See end of B. ii.
20 See end of B. xx.
21 See end of B. ii.
22 See end of B. viii.
23 See end of B. xix.
24 See end of B. viii.
25 See end of B. vii.
26 An alleged disciple of Orpheus, and probably as fabulous a personage. Many works, now lost, passed under his name.
27 One of the most celebrated of the Greek tragic writers; born B.C. 495. Of his 127 tragedies, only seven have come down to us.
28 A Pythagorean philosopher, a native of one of the cities called Larissa. Being accused of magical practices, he was banished from the city of Rome by the Emperor Augustus. The explanation of these charges is, that he probably possessed a superior knowledge of natural philosophy. See B. xxv. c. 95. B. xxxiii. c. 49. B. xxxii. c. 52, and B. xxxv. c. 50.
29 A physician, a native of Athens in the fourth century B.C. He is supposed to have belonged to the sect of the Dogmatiei, and was greatly celebrated for his classification of diseases. He wrote on diet and drink, among other subjects.
30 Probably the same writer that is mentioned at the end of B. iv.; or, possibly, a physician of that name, who was a disciple of Herophilus, and lived about the second century B.C.
31 A distinguished Peripatetic philosopher of Eresos in Lesbos, a disciple of Aristotle, and a contemporary of Theophrastus.
32 Of this writer, nothing whatever is known, beyond the mention made of him in c. 88 of this Book, and in B. xxii. c. 32.
33 Nothing whatever is known relative to this writer.
34 See end of B. vii.
35 See end of B. xx.
36 See end of B. xx.
37 See end of B. xx.
38 For Heraclides of Pontus, see end of B. iv. For Heraclides of Ta- rentum, see end of B. xii.
39 See end of B. xv.
40 See end of B. xii.
41 See end of B. xx.
42 See end of B. xx.
43 See end of B. xx.
44 See end of B. xx.
45 See end of B. xx.
46 See end of B. xx.
47 See end of B. xx.
48 See end of B. xx.
49 See end of B. vii.
50 See end of B. xx.
51 See end of B. xx.
52 See end of B. xii.
53 See end of B. xi.
54 See end of B. xii.
55 See end of B. xx.
56 See end of B. xii.
57 Sec end of B. xx.
58 See end of B. xx.
59 See end of B. vi.
60 See end of B. xx.
61 See end of B. xx.
62 See end of B. xx.
63 See end of B. xx.
64 See end of B. xii.
65 See end of B. xx.
66 See end of B. xx.
67 See end of B. xix.
68 See end of B. xx.
69 Sec end of B. xx.
70 See end of B. xx.
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