[2151] He was one of the companions of L. Lucullus, proconsul in Bætica, the province of Spain, B.C. 150. His work on Natural History is several times referred to by Pliny.
[2152] See end of B. iii.
[2153] A writer on Agriculture, mentioned by Varro and Columella. Nothing more seems to be known of him.
[2154] See end of B. v.
[2155] See end of B. iv.
[2156] See end of B. ii.
[2157] Of Tarsus, a Stoic philosopher, the disciple and successor of Diogenes, and the teacher of Panætius, about B.C. 144. Of his personal history but little is known. Mention is made of his History of Animals by the Scholiast upon Apollonius Rhodius.
[2158] See end of B. ii.
[2159] There were several physicians of this name; one was a native of Apamea in Bithynia, a follower of Herophilus, who flourished in the third or second century B.C.; another lived about the same period, and is by some supposed to have been the same as the last. No particulars seem to be known of the individual here mentioned.
[2160] See end of B. ii.