3157 See end of B. ii.
3158 See end of B. ii.
3159 He was the most ancient writer of Roman history in prose. His history, which was written in Greek, is supposed to have commenced with the arrival of Æneas in Italy, and to have come down to his own time. He was sent by the Romans to consult the oracle at Delphi, after the battle of Cannæ.
3160 The famous poet and writer on the Epicurean philosophy. He was born B.C. 98, and slew himself B.C. 54.
3162 Q. Horatius Flaccus, one of the greatest Roman poets.
3163 Nothing is known of this writer; indeed, the correct reading is a matter of doubt.
3164 See end of B. iii.
3165 Father and son, who wrote treatises on agriculture, as we learn from Columella.
3167 A writer on agriculture, mentioned by Columella.
3168 A priestess of Delphi, said to have been the inventor of hexameter verse. Servius identifies her with the Cumæan Sibyl. Pliny quotes from her in c. 8, probably from some work on augury attributed to her. A work in MS. entitled “Orneosophium,” or “Wisdom of Birds,” is attributed to Phemonoë. She is said to have been the first to pronounce the celebrated Γνῶθι σεαυτὸν, commonly attributed to Thales.
3169 An Athenian comic poet of the New Comedy, born either at Soli in Cilicia, or at Syracuse. Plautus has imitated several of his plays.
3170 Nothing is known of this writer, who wrote a poem on ornithology, as here stated. Athenæus is doubtful whether the writer was a poet, Bœus, or a poetess, Bœo.
3171 Nothing is known of this writer.
3172 See end of B. ii.
3173 See end of B. iii.
3174 See end of B. iv.
3175 The Greek tragic poet of Athens, several of whose plays still exist.
3192 See end of B. ii.
3194 See end of B. ii.
3195 Of this writer nothing whatever seems to be known.
3197 See end of B. v.
3201 Cassius Dionysius of Utica, flourished B.C. 40. He condensed the twenty-eight books of Mago into twenty, and dedicated them to the Roman prætor Sextilius.
3204 See end of B. ii.
END OF VOL. II.