Κάστωρ
Kastor, Castor
Translated by Malcolm Heath1 Feb 2002Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
Of Rhodes or (as some say) Galatia; others erroneously say he was from Massilia. Rhetor. He was nicknamed 'philo-Roman'. This man married the daughter of Deiotarus the senator, who killed him together with his wife, because he had slandered him to Caesar. He wrote Description [of Babylon] and of the Rulers of the Sea (2 books); Errors in Chronology; On Epicheiremes (5 books); On Persuasion (2 books); On the Nile; Art of Rhetoric; and other works.