[1300] B. i. c. iii. § 4.
[1301] Herophilus, a celebrated physician, and contemporary of Erasistratus. He was one of the first founders of the medical school in Alexandria, and whose fame afterwards surpassed that of all others. He lived in the 4th and 3rd centuries B. C.
[1302] Zeuxis was the author of a commentary on Hippocrates: it is now lost; even in the time of Galen, about A. D. 150, it was rare. Alexander Philalethes, who succeeded Zeuxis, had as his pupil and probably successor Demosthenes Philalethes, who was the author of a treatise on the eyes, which was still in existence in the 14th century.
[1303] The Niobe, a lost tragedy of Sophocles, is often quoted; this is probably here meant.
[1304] Satal-dere.
[1305] The Troad is called Biga by the Turks, from the name of a town which now commands that district. Biga is the ancient Sidene.
[1306] Kodscha-Tschai. Oustvola. Gossellin.
[1307] The ruins of Abydos are on the eastern side of the Hellespont, near a point called Nagara. Sestos, of which the ruins also exist, called Zemenic, are on the opposite coast.
[1308] Baba Kalessi.
[1309] Eski Stamboul, or Old Constantinople.