ds.

18 Antipater was a native of Tarsus, and the pupil and successor of
Diogenes. Cicero speaks in very high terms of his genius. (De Off.
iii. 12.)

19 Mnesarchus was a pupil of Panaetius and the teacher of Antiochus of
Ascalon.

20 Panaetius was a Rhodian, a pupil of Diogenes and Antipater, which
last he succeeded as head of the Stoic school. He was a friend of P.
Scipio AEmilianus, and accompanied him on his embassy to the kings of
Egypt and Asia in alliance with Rome. He died before B.C. 111.

21 Posidonius was a native of Apamea, in Egypt, a pupil of Panaetius,
and a contemporary of Cicero. He came to Rome B.C. 51, having been
sent there as ambassador from Rhodes in the time of Marius.

22 Lucius Afranius lived about 100 B.C. His comedies were chiefly
_togatae_, depicting Roman life; he borrowed largely from Menander,
to whom the Romans compared him. Horace says--

Dicitur Afrani toga convenisse Menandro.

Cicero praises his language highly (Brut. 45).

23 Caius Lucilius was the earliest of the Roman satirists, born at
Suessa Aurunca, B.C. 148; he died at Naples, B.C. 103. He served
under Scipio in the Numantine war. He was a very vehement and bold
satirist. Cicero alludes here to a saying of his, which he mentions
more expressly (De Orat. ii.), that he did not wish the ignorant to
read his works because they could not understand them: nor the
learned because they would be able to criticise them.

Persium non curo legere: Laelium Decimum volo.

This Persius being a very learned man; in comparison with whom
Laelius was an ignoramus.

24 Polyaenus, the son of Athenodorus was a native of Lampsacus: he was a
friend of Epicurus, and though he had previously obtained a high
reputation as a mathematician, he was persuaded by him at last to
agree with him as to the worthlessness of geometry.

25 Hieronymus was a disciple of Aristotle and a contemporary of
Arcesilaus. He lived down to the time of Ptolemy Philadelphus.

26 Trabea was a Roman comic poet, who flourished about 130 B.C.

27 Dark, obscure.

28 We know nothing more of Callipho than what we derive from this and
one or two other notices of him by Cicero.

29 The Hymnis was a comedy of Menander, translated by Caecilius.

30 It is hardly possible to transla