Callisthĕnes

, a Greek who wrote a history of his own country in 10 books, beginning from the peace between Artaxerxes and Greece, down to the plundering of the temple of Delphi by Philomel us. Diodorus , bk. 14 .――A man who with others attempted to expel the garrison of Demetrius from Athens. Polyænus , bk. 5 , ch. 17 .――A philosopher of Olynthus, intimate with Alexander, whom he accompanied in his oriental expedition in the capacity of a preceptor, and to whom he had been recommended by his friend and master Aristotle. He refused to pay divine honours to the king, for which he was accused of conspiracy, mutilated and exposed to wild beasts, dragged about in chains, till Lysimachus gave him poison, which ended together his tortures and his life, B.C. 328. None of his compositions are extant. Curtius , bk. 8 , ch. 6 .— Plutarch , Alexander .— Arrian , bk. 4 .— Justin , bk. 12 , chs. 6 & 7.――A writer of Sybaris.――A freedman of Lucullus. It is said that he gave poison to his master. Plutarch , Lucullus .