CHAP. I.
His Life.
a 1.1 DIodorus was of Iossus a City of Caria; Son of Ameinias; La∣ertius saith, he heard Eubulides;b 1.2 Strabo that he heard Apol∣lonius Cronus, after whom he was called Cronus; the name of the Master being transmitted to the Disciple, by reason of the obscurity of the true Cronus;c 1.3 of Diodorus thus Callimachus;
—ev'n Momus writ Upon the Walls, Cronus hath wit.
He lived with Ptolomeus Soter, in whose presence being questi∣oned by Stilpo, in such things as upon the sudden he could not answer; he was not only punished by the King, but reproached with the name of Cronus: whereupon he went from the Feast, and having written an Oration upon that question, died of grief.