Nearchus

, an officer of Alexander in his Indian expedition. He was ordered to sail upon the Indian ocean with Ones i crit us, and to examine it. He wrote an account of this voyage and of the king’s life; but his veracity has been called in question by Arrian. After the king’s death he was appointed over Lycia and Pamphylia. Curtius , bk. 9 , ch. 10 .— Polyænus , bk. 9 .— Justin , bk. 13 , ch. 4 .— Strabo , bk. 2 , . ――A beautiful youth, . Horace , bk. 3 , ode 20.――An old man mentioned by Cicero, de Senectute .