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, a friend of Her mola us, put to death for conspiring against Alexander. Curtius , bk. 1 , ch. 6 .――A grammarian in the age of August us. He was Strabo’s preceptor. Strabo , bk. 14 .――A statuary.――An architect of Cnidos, B.C. 284, who built the white tower of Pharos, in the bay of Alexandria. He inscribed his name upon it. See: Pharos . Strabo , bk. 17 .— Pliny , bk. 30 , ch. 12 .――A priest of Venus at Paphos, among the favourites of Vespas i an. Tacitus , Histories , bk. 2 , ch. 7 .――A favourite of Hercules.――A Greek historian, who wrote an account of Etruria.――A poet, who wrote a poem on the expedition of Xerxes into Greece. Juvenal , satire 10, li. 178 .