[648] A physician of Neapolis, who is supposed to have lived in the early part of the first century after Christ.
[649] A writer on medicine, of whom all further particulars have perished.
[650] Possibly Ephippus of Olynthus, a Greek historian of the reign of Alexander the Great.
[651] See end of B. viii.
[652] An ancient Greek historian, mentioned also by Strabo; but no further particulars are known of him.
[653] 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.
[654] A 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.
[655] A native of Amphipolis, though some make him to have been an Ephesian. The age in which he lived is not exactly known. He attacked the writings of Homer with such uncalled-for asperity, that his name has been proverbial for a snarling, captious critic. He is said to have met with a violent death. His literary productions were numerous, but none of them have come down to us.
[656] See end of B. ii.
[657] See end of B. viii.