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OXYRRYNCHOS (Ancient city) EGYPT
Heracleides. An historian who, according to Suidas, was a native of Oxyrhinchis
in Egypt, while Diogenes Laertius (v. 94) calls him a Callatian, or Alexandrian.
He lived in the reign of Ptolemy Philopator, and wrote a great work, entitled
historiai, of which the thirty-seventh book is quoted (Athen. iii., xiii.); another,
under the title diadoche, in six books (Diog. Laert. l.c.), which was probably
of the same kind, if not identical with his epitome ton Sotionos diadochon. (Diog.
Laert. v. 79.) He further made an abridgement of the biographical work of Satyrus
(Diog. Laert. viii. 40, ix. 25), and wrote a work called Aemxeutukoss logos, from
which he received the nicknane of ho aemxos. (Diog. Laert. v. 94; Phot. Bibl.
Cod. 213.) He is often called, after his father, Heracleides, the son of Srapion,
and, under this name, Suidas attributes to him also philosophical works. It is
not impossible that lie may be the same as the Heracleides who is mentioned by
Eutocius, in his commentary on Archimedes, as the author of a life of that great
mathematician.
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Nov 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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