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Foreign Authors quoted.—King Juba^[1] Hecatæus^[2] Hellanicus^[3], Damastes^[4], Dicæarchus^[5], Bæton^[6], Timosthenes^[7], Philonides^[8], Zenagoras^[9], Astynomus^[10], Staphylus^[11], Aristoteles^[12], Aristocritus^[13], Dionysius^[14], Epliorus^[15], Eratosthenes^[16], Hipparclius^[17], Panætius^[18], Serapion^[19] of Antioch, Callimaclius^[20], Agathocles^[21] Polybms^[22], Timæus^[23] the mathematician, Herodotus^[24], Myrsilus^[25] Alexander Polyhistor^[26], Metrodorus^[27], Posidonius^[28], who wrote the Periplus and the Periegesis, Sotades^[29], Periander^[30], Aristar-

1. Juba II., king of Mauritania. After the defeat of his father at Thapsus, be was carried a prisoner to Rome, though quite a child, and compelled to grace the conqueror's triumph. Augustus Caesar afterwards restored to him his kingdom, and gave him in marriage Cleopatra, or Selene, the daughter of Antony and Cleopatra. To his hterary pursuits he is chiefly indebted for his reputation. His works are continually quoted by Pliny, who regards his authority with the utmost deference. Among his numerous works he seems to hare written a History of Africa, Assyria, Arabia, and Rome; as also Treatises on the Stage, Music, Grammar, and Painting.
2. of Miletus. See end of B. iv.
3. See end of B. iv.
4. See end of B. iv.
5. See end of B. ii.
6. He was employed by Alexander the Great in measuring distances in his marches. He wrote a work upon this subject, entitled, "Distances of the Marches of Alexander."
7. See end of B. iv.
8. See end of B. iv.
9. See end of B. iv.
10. See end of B. iv.
11. See end of B. iv.
12. See end of B. ii.
13. See end of B. iv.
14. Of Chalcis. See end of B.iv.
15. See end ofB.iv.
16. See end of B. ii.
17. See end of B. ii.
18. Of Rhodes, the friend of P. Scipio Æmihanus and Lælius. He was the head of the Stoic School at Athens, where he died. His principal work was a Treatise on Moral Duties, which served as a model for Cicero in the composition of his work, "De Officus." He also wrote a work on the philosophical sects.
19. See end of B. ii.
20. See end of B. iv.
21. See end of B. iv.
22. See end of B. iv.
23. See end of B. h.
24. See end of B. ii.
25. See end of B. iv.
26. See end of B. iii.
27. See end of B. iii.
28. See end of B. ii.
29. There are four literary persons mentioned of this name. 1. An Athenian comic poet of the middle comedy. 2. A native of Maronæa, in Thrace, or else of Crete, who wrote lascivious and abusive verses, and was at last put to death by order of Ptolemy Philadelphus. He was the inventor of the Sotadean verse, or Ionic a Majore, Tetrameter Brachycatalectic. 3. An Athenian Philosopher, who wrote a book on mysteries. 4. A Byzantine philosopher, of whom nothing whatever is known.
30. There were two writers of this name, before the time of Pliny. 1.