And he added, “Heraclides knows nothing of letters, and has no shame.”
VIII. And there were fourteen persons of the name of Heraclides.
- First, this man of whom we are speaking;
- the second was a fellow citizen of his, who composed songs for Pyrrhic dances, and other trifles;
- the third was a native of Cumæ, who wrote a history of the Persian war in five books;
- the fourth was also a citizen of Cumæ, who was an orator, and wrote a treatise on his art;
- the fifth was a native of Calatia or Alexandria, who wrote a Succession in six books, and a treatise on Ships, from which he was called Lembos;
- the sixth was an Alexandrian, who wrote an account of the peculiar habits of the Persians;
- the seventh was a dialectician of Bargyleia, who wrote against Epicurus;
- the eighth was a physician, a pupil of Hicesius;
- the ninth was a physician of Tarentum, a man of great skill;
- the tenth was a poet, who wrote Precepts;
- the eleventh was a sculptor of Phocæa;
- the twelfth was an Epigrammatic poet of considerable beauty;
- the thirteenth was a Magnesian, who wrote a history of the reign of Mithridates;
- the fourteenth was an astronomer, who wrote a treatise on Astronomy.