Athenæus

, a Greek cosmographer.――A peripatetic philosopher of Cilicia in the time of August us. Strabo. ――A Spartan sent by his countrymen to Athens, to settle the peace during the Peloponnesian war.――A grammarian of Naucratis, who composed an elegant and miscellaneous work, called ♦ Deipnosophistæ , replete with very curious and interesting remarks and anecdotes of the manners of the ancients, and likewise valuable for the scattered pieces of ancient poetry which it preserves. The work consists of 15 books, of which the two first, part of the third, and almost the whole of the last, are lost. Athenæus wrote, besides this, a history of Syria, and other works now lost. He died A.D. 194. The best edition of his works is that of Casaubon, folio, 2  vols. , Lugdunum, 1612, by far superior to the editions of 1595 and 1657.――An historian, who wrote an account of Semi ram is. Diodorus. ――A brother of king Eumenes  II. , famous for his paternal affection.――A Roman historian, in the age of Gallienus, who is supposed to have written a book on military engines.――A physician of Cilicia in the age of Pliny, who made heat, cold, wet, dry, and air the elements, instead of the four commonly received. ♦ ‘Deipnosphistæ’ replaced with ‘Deipnosophistæ’