3244 See end of B. iii.

3245 See end of B. ii., and end of B. vi.

3246 See end of B. ii.

3247 See end of B. xii.

3248 See end of B. v.

3249 See end of B. xii.

3250 See end of B. xxx.

3251 See end of B. ii.

3252 He is also mentioned in B. xxxii. c. 16, but beyond that, nothing whatever appears to be known of him. He must not be confounded with Pelops of Smyrna, one of Galen’s preceptors, who flourished in the second century after Christ.

3253 See end of B. xxviii.

3254 See end of B. ii.

3255 See end of B. ii.

3256 See end of B. viii.

3257 A celebrated Comic poet, a disciple of Theophrastus, and the inventor of the New Comedy at Athens. Only a few fragments of his works survive.

3258 See end of B. viii.

3259 A physician, of whom, beyond the mention made of him in B. xxxii. c. 26, no further particulars appear to be known.

3260 See end of B. xx.

3261 A Greek writer on plants, and a follower of Asclepiades of Bithynia. He is supposed to have flourished in the latter half of the first century B.C. His medical formulæ are several times quoted by Galen. See c. 31 of the succeeding Book.

3262 See end of B. vii.

3263 See end of B. xxi.