Lib. 2. cap. 28. § 5.
PEriander was one of the seven Sages, but a cruel Tyrant] This Periander that was King of Co∣rinth
Som animadversions and observations upon Sr. Walter Raleigh's Historie of the world wherein his mistakes are noted and som doubtful passages cleered / by Alexander Ross.
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was not one of the seven Sages; for there were two of this name, the one was a Tyrant, the other one of the Sages, as Diogenes Laertius sheweth out of Sotion, Heraclides, and Pamphila; but Neanthes saith that these two Perianders were cousin germans, and indeed it is unlikely that the Grecians, who hated Tyrannie as much as anie other nation, should so far honor this cruel Tyrant, as to reckon him one of their so much renowned Wisemen.