of Plato.
There is a treatise extant bearing his name, which is, however,
probably spurious, and only an abridgment of Plato's dialogue
Timaeus.

60 Dicaearchus was a native of Messana, in Sicily, though he lived
chiefly in Greece; he was one of the later disciples of Aristotle.
He was a great geographer, politician, historian, and philosopher,
and died about B.C. 285.

61 Aristoxenus was a native of Tarentum, and also a pupil of Aristotle.
We know nothing of his opinions except that he held the soul to be a
_harmony_ of the body; a doctrine which had been already discussed
by Plato in the Phaedo, and combated by Aristotle. He was a great
musician, and the chief portions of his works which have come down
to us are fragments of some musical treatises.--Smith's Dict. Gr. and
Rom. Biog., to which source I must acknowledge my obligation for
nearly the whole of these biographical notes.

62 The Simonides here meant, is the celebrated poet of Ceos, the
perfecter of Elegiac poetry among the Greeks. He flourished about
the time of the Persian war. Besides his poetry, he is said to have
been the inventor of some method of aiding the memory. He died at
the court of Hiero, B.C. 467.

63 Theodectes was a native of Phaselis, in Pamphylia, a distinguished
rhetorician and tragic poet, and flourished in the time of Philip of
Macedon. He was a pupil of Isocrates, and lived at Athens, and died
there at the age of 41.

64 Cineas was a Thessalian, and (as is said in the text) came to Rome
as ambassador from Pyrrhus after the battle of Heraclea, B.C. 280,
and his memory is said to have been so great that on the day after
his arrival he was able to address all the senators and knights by
name. He probably died before Pyrrhus returned to Italy, B.C. 276.

65 Charmadas, called also Charmides, was a fellow pupil with Philo, the
Larissaean of Clitomachus, the Carthaginian. He is said by some
authors to have founded a fourth academy.

66 Metrodorus was a minister of Mithridates the Great; and employed by
him as supreme judge in Pontus, and afterwards as an ambassador.
Cicero speaks of him in other places (De Orat. ii. 88) as a man of
wonderful memory.

67 Quintus Hortensius was eight years older than Cicero; and, till
Cicero's fame surpa