X. And when at a later period he became afflicted with disease, as the people of Chalcis said, for he died there, he was persuaded to wear amulets and charms, and to show his repentance for the insults that he had offered to the Gods. But he suffered fearfully for want of proper people to attend him, until Antigonus sent him two servants. And he followed him in a litter, as Phavorinus relates in his Universal History. And the circumstances of his death we have ourselves spoken of in the following lines:—
XI. There were ten people of the name of Bion.
First of all, the one who flourished at the same time with Pherecydes of Syros, and who has left two books behind him, which are still extant; he was a native of Proconnesus.
The second was a Syracusan, the author of a system of rhetoric.
The third was the man of whom we have been speaking.
The fourth was a pupil of Democritus, and a mathematician, a native of Abdera, who wrote in both the Attic and Ionic dialect. He was the person who first asserted that there were countries where there was night for six months, and day for six months.
The fifth was a native of Soli; who wrote a history of Æthiopia.
The sixth was a rhetorician, who has left behind him nine books, inscribed with the names of the Muses, which are still extant.
The eighth was a Milesian statuary, who is mentioned by Polemo.
The ninth was a tragic poet of the number of those who are called Tarsicans.
The tenth was a statuary, a native of Clazomenæ or Chios, who is mentioned by Hipponax.