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[ Eratosthenes, an Athenian philosopher, flourished in Egypt, under three of the Ptolemies successively. Strabo often mentions him. See xvii. p. 576.]
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[ Cornelius Helvius Cinna was an epigrammatic poet, of the same age as Catullus. Ovid mentions him, Tristia, xi. 435.]
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[ Priapus was worshipped as the protector of gardens.]
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[ Zenodotus, the grammarian, was librarian to the first Ptolemy at Alexandria, and tutor to his sons.]
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[ For Crates, see before, p. 507.]