cessor of Eudemus, and therefore lived
probably
in
3.
3.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a
) he wrote a commentary on Euripides, as has been
44. Surnamed Turax, or the Thracian, a cele- | inferred from a quotation of the Scholiast on that
brated Greek grammarian, who unquestionably poet. His chief merit consists in the impulse he
derived his surname from the fact of his father gave to the study of systematic grammar, and in
Teres being a Thracian (Suidas); and it is absurd what he did for a correct understanding of Homer.
to believe, with the author of the Etymologicum The Etymol. M. contains several examples of his
Magnum (p. 277. 53), that he received it from his etymological, prosodical, and exegetical attempts.
rough voice or any other circumstance. He him- (pp. 308. 18, 747. 20, 365. 20. ) Dionysius is also
self was, according to some, a native of Alexandria mentioned as the author of Merétal and of a work
(Suidas), and, according to others, of Byzantium ; on Rhodes. (Steph. Byz. s. v. Tapoós; comp.
but he is also called a Rhodian, because at one Gräfenhan, Gesch. der Klass. Philol. i. p. 40:2, &c. )
time he resided at Rhodes, and gave instructions 45. A son or disciple of TRYPHON, a Greek
there (Strah. xiv. p. 655; Athen. xi. p. 489), and grammarian, who lived a hout B c. 50. (Steph.
it was at Rhodes that Tyrannion was among the Byz. s. v. "Oa, Mupdovoús, &c. ) He was the author
pupils of Dionysius. Dionysius also staid for some of a work nepl óvoudtwv, which consisted of at
i me at Rome, where he was engaged in teaching, least eleven books, and is often referred to by Ste-
about B. c. 80. Further particulars about his lite phanus of Byzantium and Harpocration. (Comp.
are not known. He was the author of numerous Athen. vi. p. 255, xi. p. 503, xiv. p. 641. ) IL. S. ]
grammatical works, manuals, and commentaries. DIONY'SIUS (alovúsios), of Sinope, an Athe-
Ile possess under his name a Téxun ypaluation, nian comic poet of the middle comedy. (Athen. xi.
a small work, which however became the basis of pp. 467, d. , 497, c. , xiv. p. 615, e. ; Schol. Hom.
all subsequent grammars, and was a standard book Il. xi. 515. ) He appears, from indications in the
in grammar schools for many centuries. Under fragments of his plays, to have been younger than
such circumstances we cannot wonder that, in the Archestratus, to have flourished about the same
course of time, such a work was much interpolated, time as Nicostratus, the son of Aristophanes, and
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nian supremacy in Greece. We have the titles
was himself a physician, but he wrote a work en.
and some fragments of his 'Akorticóuevos (Ath. titled AlKTUAKá, in which he discussed various
xiv. p. 664, d. ), which appears to have been trans- medical questions. It consisted of one hundred
.
lated by Naevius, Deo nocópos (a long passage in chapters, the heads of which hare been preserved
Athen. ix. p. 404, e. ), 'Ouvvuoi (Athen. viii. p. 381, by Photius, and shew that he wrote both in favour
c. , xiv. p. 615, e. ), Após (Schol. Hom. Il. xi. 515; of each proposition, and also against it. The title
Eustath. 859. 49), Eufovoa or Luteipa (Athen. of his book has been supposed to allude to his
xi. Pp. 467, d. , 497, d. ; Stob. Serm. cxxv. 8. ) teaching his readers to argue on both sides of a
Meursing and Fabricius are wrong m assigning the question, and thus to catch their hearers, as it
Tafiáp you to Dionysius. It belongs to Eupolis. were, in a net.
(Meineke, Frag. Com. Graec. i. pp. 419, 420, iii. 2. A native of CYRTUS (Kuprós) in Egypt, who
pp. 547–555. )
(P. S. ) was mentioned by Herennius Philo in his lost Iis-
DIONY'SIUS, artists. 1. Of Argos, a statuary, tory of Medicine. Stephanus Byzantimus (s. v. Kúp-
who was employed together with Glaucus in mak- Tos) calls him diáo nuos latpos. His date is uncer-
ing the works which Smicythus dedicated at Olymo tain, but if (as Meursius conjectures) he is the
pia. This fixes the artist's time ; for Smicythus same person who is quoted by Caelius Aurelianus
Bucceeded Anaxilas as tyrant of Rhegium in B. C. (De Alorb. Chron. ii. 13, p. 416), he may be sup-
476. The works executed by Dionysius were sta- posed to have lived in the third century B. C.
tues of Contest ('Ayur) carrying áttñpes (Dict. (Meursius, Dionysius, gc. in Opera, vol. v. )
of Ant. s. v. ), of Dionysius, of Orpheus, and of 3. A native of MILETUS, in Caria, must have
Zeus without a beard. (Paus. v. 26. $S 3—6. ) lived in or before the second century after Christ,
He also mado a horse and charioteer in bronze, as he is quoted by Galen, who has preserved some
which were among the works dedicated at Olympia of his medical forníulae. (De Compos. Medicum.
by Phormis of Maenalus, the contemporary of Ge- sec. Locos, iv. 7, vol. xii. p. 741; De Antid. ii. 11,
lon and Hiero. (Paus. v. 27. S 1. )
vol. xiv. p. 171. ) He may perhaps be the same
2. A sculptor, who made the statne of Hera person who is mentioned by Galen without any
which Octavian afterwards placed in the portico of distinguishing epithet. (De Compos. Medicam. sec.
Octavia. (Plin. xxxvi. 5, 8. 4. $ 10. ) Junius takes Locos. iv. 8, vol. xii. p. 760. )
this artist to be the same as the former, but Sillig 4. Son of OXYMACH US, appears to have written
argues, that in the time of the elder Dionysius the some anatomical work, which is mentioned loy
art of sculpturing marble was not brought to suffi- Rufus Ephesius. (De Appell. Part. Corp. Hum.
cient perfection to allow us to ascribe one of its p. 42. ) He was either a contemporary or prede-
masterpieces to him.
cessor of Eudemus, and therefore lived probably in
3. Of Colophon, a painter, contemporary with the fourth or third century B. C.
Polygnotus of Thasos, whose works he imitated in 5. Of Samos, whose medical formulae are quot-
their accuracy, expression (Tábos), manner (100s), by Galen (De Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen. iv.
in the treatment of the form, in the delicacy of the 13, vol. xiii. p. 745), is supposed by Meursius
drapery, and in every other respect except in gran- (1. c. ) to be the same person as the son of Muso
deur. (Aelian. V. H. iv. 3. ) Plutarch (Timol. 36)nius; but, as Kübn observes (Additam. ad Elench.
speaks of his works as having strength and tone, Medicor. 'Vet. a Fabricio in “ Biblioth. Gracca,"
but as forced and laboured. Aristotle (Poët. 2) exhib. fascic. xiv. p. 7), from no other reason, than
says that Polygnotus painted the likenesses of men because both are said to have been natives of Sa-
better than the originals, Pauson made them worse, mos (nor is even this quite certain), whereas from
and Dionysius just like them (óuoious). It seems the writings of the son of Musonius there is no
from this that the pictures of Dionysius were defi- ground for believing him to have been a physician,
cient in the ideal. It was no doubt for this rea- or even a collector of medical prescriptions.
son that Dionysius was called Anthropographus, 6. SALLUSTIUS DIONysius, is quoted by Pliny
like DEMETRIUS. It is true that Pliny, from (H. N. xxxii. 26), and therefore must have lived
whom we learn the fact, gives a different reason, in or before the first century after Christ.
namely, that Dionysius was so called because he 7. Cassius DIONYSIUS. [Cassius, p. 626. )
painted only men, and not landscapes (xxxv. 10. 8. Dionysius, a surgeon, quoted by Scribonius
s. 37); but this is only one case out of many in Largus (Compos. Medicam. c. 212, ed. Rhod. ),
which Pliny's ignorance of art has caused him to who lived probably at or before the beginning of
give a false interpretation of a true fact. Sillig the Christian era.
applies this passage to the later Dionysius (No. 4), 9. A physician, who was a contemporary of
but without any good reason.
Galen in the second century after Christ, and is
4. A painter, who flourished at Rome at the mentioned as attending the son of Caecilianus, to
same time as Sopolis and Lala of Cyzicus, about whom Galen wrote a letter full of medical advice,
B. c. 84. Pliny says of him and Sopolis, that they which is still extant. (Galen, Pro Puero Epilept.
were the most renowned painters of that age, except Consil. , in Opera, vol. xi. p. 357. ).
Lala, and that their works filled the picture gal- 10. A fellow-pupil of Heracleides of Tarentum,
leries (xxxv. 11, s. 40. § 43).
[P. S. ] who must have lived probably in the third century
DIONY'SIUS (Alovúclos), the name of several B. C. , and one of whose medical formulae is quoted
physicians and surgeons, whom it is sometimes by Galen. (De Compos. Medicam. sec. Locos, v. 3,
difficult to distinguish with certainty.
vol. xii. p. 835. )
1. A native of AEGAE (but of which place of 11. A physician who belonged to the medical
this name does not appear), who must have lired sect of the Methodici, and who lived probably in
in or before the ninth century after Christ, as he the first century B. C. (Galen, de Meth. Med. i. 7,
is quoted by Photius (Biblioth. SS 185, 211, pp. vol. x. p. 53; Introd. c. 4, vol. xiv. p. 68. 1. )
129, 168, ed. Bekker), but how much earlier he 12. The physician mentioned by Galen (Curio
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DIONYSUS.
munt, in Hippocr. “ Aphor. " iv. 69, vol. xvii. pt. ii. nally a mere epithet or surname of Dionysus, but
p. 751) as a commentator on the Aphorisms of does not occur till after the time of llerodotus. Ac-
Hippocrates, must have lived in or before the se- cording to the common tradition, Dionysus was the
cond century after Christ, but cannot certainly be son of Zeus and Semele, the daughter of Cadmus of
identified with any other physician of that name. Thebes (Hom. Hymn. vi. 56; Eurip. Bacch. init. ;
13. A physician whose medical formulae are | Apollod. iji. 4. & 3); whereas others describe him as
mentioned by Celsus (De Mod. vi. 6. 4; 18. 9, a son of Zeus by Demeter, lo, Dione, or Arge.
pp. 119, 136), must, have lived in or before the (Diod. iii. 62, 74; Schol. ad Pind. Pyth. iii. 177;
first century after Christ, and may perhaps be the Plut. de Flum. 16. ) Diodorus (iii. 67) further men-
same person as No. 3, or 8.
tions a tradition, according to which he was a son
14. A physician at Rome in the fifth century of Ammon and Amaltheia, and that Ammon, from
after Christ, who was also in deacon's orders, and fear of Rhea, carried the child to a cave in the
a man of great piety. When Rome was taken by neighbourhood of mount Nysi, in a lonely island
Alaric, A. D. 410, Dionysius was carried away pri- formed by the river Triton. Ammon there en-
soner, but was treated with great kindness, on trusted the child to Nysa, the daughter of Aristaeus,
account of his virtues and his medical skill. Anand Athena likewise undertook to protect the boy.
epitaph on him in Latin elegiac verse is to be Others again represent him as a son of Zeus by Per-
found in Baronius, Annal. Eccles. ad ann. 410, sephone or Iris, or describe him simply as a son of
§ 41.
(W. A. G. ] Lethe, or of Indus. (Diod. iv. 4; Plut. Sympos.
DIONYSOCLES (A. Ovuookins), of Tralles, is vii
. 5 ; Philostr. Vit. Apollon. ii. 9. ). The same
mentioned by Strabo (xiv. p. 649) among the dis diversity of opinions prevails in regard to the na-
tinguished rhetoricians of that city. He was pro- tive place of the god, which in the common tradi-
bably a pupil of Apollodorus of Pergamus, and tion is Thebes, while in others we find India,
consequently lived shortly before or at the time of Libya, Crete, Dracanum in Samos, Naxos, Elis,
Strabo.
(L. S. ] Eleutherae, or Teos, mentioned as his birthplace.
DIONYSODOʻRUS (Alovodôwpos). 1. A (Hom. Hymn. xxv. 8; Diod. iii. 65, v. 75 ; Nonnus,
Boeotian, who is mentioned by Diodorus Siculus Dionys. ix. 6; Theocrit. xxvi. 33. ) It is owing to
(xv. 95) as the author of a history of Greece, this diversity in the traditions that ancient writers
which came down as far as the reign of Philip of were driven to the supposition that there were ori-
Macedonia, the father of Alexander the Great.
44. Surnamed Turax, or the Thracian, a cele- | inferred from a quotation of the Scholiast on that
brated Greek grammarian, who unquestionably poet. His chief merit consists in the impulse he
derived his surname from the fact of his father gave to the study of systematic grammar, and in
Teres being a Thracian (Suidas); and it is absurd what he did for a correct understanding of Homer.
to believe, with the author of the Etymologicum The Etymol. M. contains several examples of his
Magnum (p. 277. 53), that he received it from his etymological, prosodical, and exegetical attempts.
rough voice or any other circumstance. He him- (pp. 308. 18, 747. 20, 365. 20. ) Dionysius is also
self was, according to some, a native of Alexandria mentioned as the author of Merétal and of a work
(Suidas), and, according to others, of Byzantium ; on Rhodes. (Steph. Byz. s. v. Tapoós; comp.
but he is also called a Rhodian, because at one Gräfenhan, Gesch. der Klass. Philol. i. p. 40:2, &c. )
time he resided at Rhodes, and gave instructions 45. A son or disciple of TRYPHON, a Greek
there (Strah. xiv. p. 655; Athen. xi. p. 489), and grammarian, who lived a hout B c. 50. (Steph.
it was at Rhodes that Tyrannion was among the Byz. s. v. "Oa, Mupdovoús, &c. ) He was the author
pupils of Dionysius. Dionysius also staid for some of a work nepl óvoudtwv, which consisted of at
i me at Rome, where he was engaged in teaching, least eleven books, and is often referred to by Ste-
about B. c. 80. Further particulars about his lite phanus of Byzantium and Harpocration. (Comp.
are not known. He was the author of numerous Athen. vi. p. 255, xi. p. 503, xiv. p. 641. ) IL. S. ]
grammatical works, manuals, and commentaries. DIONY'SIUS (alovúsios), of Sinope, an Athe-
Ile possess under his name a Téxun ypaluation, nian comic poet of the middle comedy. (Athen. xi.
a small work, which however became the basis of pp. 467, d. , 497, c. , xiv. p. 615, e. ; Schol. Hom.
all subsequent grammars, and was a standard book Il. xi. 515. ) He appears, from indications in the
in grammar schools for many centuries. Under fragments of his plays, to have been younger than
such circumstances we cannot wonder that, in the Archestratus, to have flourished about the same
course of time, such a work was much interpolated, time as Nicostratus, the son of Aristophanes, and
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to have lived till the establishment of the Macedo- I lived is uncertain. It is not known whether he
nian supremacy in Greece. We have the titles
was himself a physician, but he wrote a work en.
and some fragments of his 'Akorticóuevos (Ath. titled AlKTUAKá, in which he discussed various
xiv. p. 664, d. ), which appears to have been trans- medical questions. It consisted of one hundred
.
lated by Naevius, Deo nocópos (a long passage in chapters, the heads of which hare been preserved
Athen. ix. p. 404, e. ), 'Ouvvuoi (Athen. viii. p. 381, by Photius, and shew that he wrote both in favour
c. , xiv. p. 615, e. ), Após (Schol. Hom. Il. xi. 515; of each proposition, and also against it. The title
Eustath. 859. 49), Eufovoa or Luteipa (Athen. of his book has been supposed to allude to his
xi. Pp. 467, d. , 497, d. ; Stob. Serm. cxxv. 8. ) teaching his readers to argue on both sides of a
Meursing and Fabricius are wrong m assigning the question, and thus to catch their hearers, as it
Tafiáp you to Dionysius. It belongs to Eupolis. were, in a net.
(Meineke, Frag. Com. Graec. i. pp. 419, 420, iii. 2. A native of CYRTUS (Kuprós) in Egypt, who
pp. 547–555. )
(P. S. ) was mentioned by Herennius Philo in his lost Iis-
DIONY'SIUS, artists. 1. Of Argos, a statuary, tory of Medicine. Stephanus Byzantimus (s. v. Kúp-
who was employed together with Glaucus in mak- Tos) calls him diáo nuos latpos. His date is uncer-
ing the works which Smicythus dedicated at Olymo tain, but if (as Meursius conjectures) he is the
pia. This fixes the artist's time ; for Smicythus same person who is quoted by Caelius Aurelianus
Bucceeded Anaxilas as tyrant of Rhegium in B. C. (De Alorb. Chron. ii. 13, p. 416), he may be sup-
476. The works executed by Dionysius were sta- posed to have lived in the third century B. C.
tues of Contest ('Ayur) carrying áttñpes (Dict. (Meursius, Dionysius, gc. in Opera, vol. v. )
of Ant. s. v. ), of Dionysius, of Orpheus, and of 3. A native of MILETUS, in Caria, must have
Zeus without a beard. (Paus. v. 26. $S 3—6. ) lived in or before the second century after Christ,
He also mado a horse and charioteer in bronze, as he is quoted by Galen, who has preserved some
which were among the works dedicated at Olympia of his medical forníulae. (De Compos. Medicum.
by Phormis of Maenalus, the contemporary of Ge- sec. Locos, iv. 7, vol. xii. p. 741; De Antid. ii. 11,
lon and Hiero. (Paus. v. 27. S 1. )
vol. xiv. p. 171. ) He may perhaps be the same
2. A sculptor, who made the statne of Hera person who is mentioned by Galen without any
which Octavian afterwards placed in the portico of distinguishing epithet. (De Compos. Medicam. sec.
Octavia. (Plin. xxxvi. 5, 8. 4. $ 10. ) Junius takes Locos. iv. 8, vol. xii. p. 760. )
this artist to be the same as the former, but Sillig 4. Son of OXYMACH US, appears to have written
argues, that in the time of the elder Dionysius the some anatomical work, which is mentioned loy
art of sculpturing marble was not brought to suffi- Rufus Ephesius. (De Appell. Part. Corp. Hum.
cient perfection to allow us to ascribe one of its p. 42. ) He was either a contemporary or prede-
masterpieces to him.
cessor of Eudemus, and therefore lived probably in
3. Of Colophon, a painter, contemporary with the fourth or third century B. C.
Polygnotus of Thasos, whose works he imitated in 5. Of Samos, whose medical formulae are quot-
their accuracy, expression (Tábos), manner (100s), by Galen (De Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen. iv.
in the treatment of the form, in the delicacy of the 13, vol. xiii. p. 745), is supposed by Meursius
drapery, and in every other respect except in gran- (1. c. ) to be the same person as the son of Muso
deur. (Aelian. V. H. iv. 3. ) Plutarch (Timol. 36)nius; but, as Kübn observes (Additam. ad Elench.
speaks of his works as having strength and tone, Medicor. 'Vet. a Fabricio in “ Biblioth. Gracca,"
but as forced and laboured. Aristotle (Poët. 2) exhib. fascic. xiv. p. 7), from no other reason, than
says that Polygnotus painted the likenesses of men because both are said to have been natives of Sa-
better than the originals, Pauson made them worse, mos (nor is even this quite certain), whereas from
and Dionysius just like them (óuoious). It seems the writings of the son of Musonius there is no
from this that the pictures of Dionysius were defi- ground for believing him to have been a physician,
cient in the ideal. It was no doubt for this rea- or even a collector of medical prescriptions.
son that Dionysius was called Anthropographus, 6. SALLUSTIUS DIONysius, is quoted by Pliny
like DEMETRIUS. It is true that Pliny, from (H. N. xxxii. 26), and therefore must have lived
whom we learn the fact, gives a different reason, in or before the first century after Christ.
namely, that Dionysius was so called because he 7. Cassius DIONYSIUS. [Cassius, p. 626. )
painted only men, and not landscapes (xxxv. 10. 8. Dionysius, a surgeon, quoted by Scribonius
s. 37); but this is only one case out of many in Largus (Compos. Medicam. c. 212, ed. Rhod. ),
which Pliny's ignorance of art has caused him to who lived probably at or before the beginning of
give a false interpretation of a true fact. Sillig the Christian era.
applies this passage to the later Dionysius (No. 4), 9. A physician, who was a contemporary of
but without any good reason.
Galen in the second century after Christ, and is
4. A painter, who flourished at Rome at the mentioned as attending the son of Caecilianus, to
same time as Sopolis and Lala of Cyzicus, about whom Galen wrote a letter full of medical advice,
B. c. 84. Pliny says of him and Sopolis, that they which is still extant. (Galen, Pro Puero Epilept.
were the most renowned painters of that age, except Consil. , in Opera, vol. xi. p. 357. ).
Lala, and that their works filled the picture gal- 10. A fellow-pupil of Heracleides of Tarentum,
leries (xxxv. 11, s. 40. § 43).
[P. S. ] who must have lived probably in the third century
DIONY'SIUS (Alovúclos), the name of several B. C. , and one of whose medical formulae is quoted
physicians and surgeons, whom it is sometimes by Galen. (De Compos. Medicam. sec. Locos, v. 3,
difficult to distinguish with certainty.
vol. xii. p. 835. )
1. A native of AEGAE (but of which place of 11. A physician who belonged to the medical
this name does not appear), who must have lired sect of the Methodici, and who lived probably in
in or before the ninth century after Christ, as he the first century B. C. (Galen, de Meth. Med. i. 7,
is quoted by Photius (Biblioth. SS 185, 211, pp. vol. x. p. 53; Introd. c. 4, vol. xiv. p. 68. 1. )
129, 168, ed. Bekker), but how much earlier he 12. The physician mentioned by Galen (Curio
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DIONYSUS.
DIONYSUS.
munt, in Hippocr. “ Aphor. " iv. 69, vol. xvii. pt. ii. nally a mere epithet or surname of Dionysus, but
p. 751) as a commentator on the Aphorisms of does not occur till after the time of llerodotus. Ac-
Hippocrates, must have lived in or before the se- cording to the common tradition, Dionysus was the
cond century after Christ, but cannot certainly be son of Zeus and Semele, the daughter of Cadmus of
identified with any other physician of that name. Thebes (Hom. Hymn. vi. 56; Eurip. Bacch. init. ;
13. A physician whose medical formulae are | Apollod. iji. 4. & 3); whereas others describe him as
mentioned by Celsus (De Mod. vi. 6. 4; 18. 9, a son of Zeus by Demeter, lo, Dione, or Arge.
pp. 119, 136), must, have lived in or before the (Diod. iii. 62, 74; Schol. ad Pind. Pyth. iii. 177;
first century after Christ, and may perhaps be the Plut. de Flum. 16. ) Diodorus (iii. 67) further men-
same person as No. 3, or 8.
tions a tradition, according to which he was a son
14. A physician at Rome in the fifth century of Ammon and Amaltheia, and that Ammon, from
after Christ, who was also in deacon's orders, and fear of Rhea, carried the child to a cave in the
a man of great piety. When Rome was taken by neighbourhood of mount Nysi, in a lonely island
Alaric, A. D. 410, Dionysius was carried away pri- formed by the river Triton. Ammon there en-
soner, but was treated with great kindness, on trusted the child to Nysa, the daughter of Aristaeus,
account of his virtues and his medical skill. Anand Athena likewise undertook to protect the boy.
epitaph on him in Latin elegiac verse is to be Others again represent him as a son of Zeus by Per-
found in Baronius, Annal. Eccles. ad ann. 410, sephone or Iris, or describe him simply as a son of
§ 41.
(W. A. G. ] Lethe, or of Indus. (Diod. iv. 4; Plut. Sympos.
DIONYSOCLES (A. Ovuookins), of Tralles, is vii
. 5 ; Philostr. Vit. Apollon. ii. 9. ). The same
mentioned by Strabo (xiv. p. 649) among the dis diversity of opinions prevails in regard to the na-
tinguished rhetoricians of that city. He was pro- tive place of the god, which in the common tradi-
bably a pupil of Apollodorus of Pergamus, and tion is Thebes, while in others we find India,
consequently lived shortly before or at the time of Libya, Crete, Dracanum in Samos, Naxos, Elis,
Strabo.
(L. S. ] Eleutherae, or Teos, mentioned as his birthplace.
DIONYSODOʻRUS (Alovodôwpos). 1. A (Hom. Hymn. xxv. 8; Diod. iii. 65, v. 75 ; Nonnus,
Boeotian, who is mentioned by Diodorus Siculus Dionys. ix. 6; Theocrit. xxvi. 33. ) It is owing to
(xv. 95) as the author of a history of Greece, this diversity in the traditions that ancient writers
which came down as far as the reign of Philip of were driven to the supposition that there were ori-
Macedonia, the father of Alexander the Great.
