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- δ429ΔημήτριοςDemetrius, Demetrios… in Attica); he was called Phanus at first; a Peripatetic philosopher. He wrote on philosophy, history, rhetoric and politics, and about poets. He studied with Theophrastus, and was a demagogue in Athens. He composed …
- λ523Λίθος[the] stone… have made oaths at a particular stone, as Aristotle and Philochorus show.
- η545ἩρώδηςHerodes… Ephemerides, an extremely learned composition, and letters and improvisatory speeches; Philostratus mentions them in the Lives of the Sophists. Hadrian the sophist succeeded him as head of his school. Herodes was a contemporary of …
- μ202ΜαρκελλῖνοςMarkellinos, Marcellinus… wisdom in government and marvelous courage well-tested in warfare. The philosopher Sallustius was at his court.
- λ688ΛούκουλλοςLucullus… that his multitude was unable to help him. Antiochus the philosopher, at rate, when mentioning this battle says that the sun never looked down on its like. Strabo says that so effortlessly did the …
- δ1062ΔικαίαρχοςDikaiarkhos, Dicaearchus… Pheidias, Sicilian, from the city of Messene. Pupil of Aristotle. Philosopher and rhetorician and geometrician. [He wrote] Measurements of the Mountains in the Peloponnese; Life of Hellas in 3 books. This man wrote the …
- κ1719ΚλεόβουλοςKleoboulos, Cleobulus… those of his time for strength and beauty, he studied philosophy in Egypt. He had a daughter named Kleobouline who composed riddles in hexameter verse. Kleoboulos wrote songs and riddles in 3,000 verses. Of …