A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

390 HERACLEIDES. HERACLE1DES.
impossible that he may be the same as the Hera- Nd'wvt Ka2l Tcv Xuvyyervcv T0oeost mentioned by
cleides who is mentioned by Eutocius, in his corn- Diogenes, though others conjecture that it is the
mentary on Archimedes, as the author of a life of work of another person. It was first printed
that great mathematician. with Aelian's Variae Historiae, at Rome in 1545,
3. Of Odessus, in Thrace, a Greek historian afterwards at Geneva, 1593, edited by Cragius, but
mentioned by Stephanus Byzantinus (s. v.'O7a — the best editions are by Kiler, with an introducads). tion, notes, and a German translation, Halle, 1804,
4. Of Magnesia, is known only as the author of and by Coraes, in his edition of Aelian, Paris,
a history of Mithridates (MLOpsaTLcKa), which is 1805, 8vo. Another extant work,'AAAryoptat
lost. (Diog. Lart. v. 94.)'Oc71pLKat, which also bears the name of Hera5. A Greek grammarian of Alexandria (Eustath. cleides, was certainly not written by him. It was
ad Hoem. p. 237), who is perhaps the same as the first printed with a Latin translation by Gesner,
one whom Ammonius (De Difer. Verb. s. a. or'a- Basel, 1544, and afterwards with a German trans4pvAsj) mentions as a contemporary of his. The lation by Schulthess, ZUirich, 1779. We further
same name is often mentioned by Eustathius, and read in Diogenes (on the authority of Aristoxenus,
in the Venetian scholia on the Iliad, in connection surnamed d povo'KJcd, also a scholar of Aristotle),
with grammatical works on Homer, and Ammonius that "Heracleides made tragedies, and put the
(s. v. yvv) attributes to one iTeracleides a work en- name of Thespis to them." This sentence has
titled Ilepl KacoAtrcjs 7rpooasie.. given occasion to a learned disquisition by Bentley
6. A Greek rhetorician of Lycia. who lived in (P/halaris, p. 239), to prove that the fragments atthe second century of our era. He was a disciple tributed to Thespis are really cited from these
of Herodes Atticus, and taught rhetoric at Smyrna counterfeit tragedies of Heracleides. The genuinewith great success, so that the town was greatly ness of one fragment he disproves by showing that
benefited by. him, on account of the great conflux of it contains a sentiment belonging strictly to Plato,
students from all parts of Asia Minor. He owed and which therefore may naturally be attributed to
his success not so much to his talent as to his in- Heracleides. Some childish stories are told about
defatigable industry; and once, when he had com- Heracleides keeping a pet serpent, and ordering
posed an ey6apztuov 7rlou, and showed it'to his one of his friends to conceal his body after his
rival Ptolemaeus, the latter struck out the vr in death, and place the serpent on the bed, that it?rdvov, and, returning it to Heracleides, said, might be supposed that he had been taken to the
" There, you may read your own encomium" (by- company of the gods. It is also said, that he killed
Kic4Sov O"ovU). He died at the age of eighty, leaving a man who had usurped the tyranny in Heracleia,
a country-house in the neighbourhood of Smyrna, and there are other traditions about him, scarcely
which he had built with the money he had earned, worth relating. There was also another Heracleides
and which he called Rhetorica. He also published Ponticus of the same town of Heracleia, a grama purified edition of the orations of Nicetes, forget- marian, who lived at Rome in the reign of the emting, as his biographer ~says, that he was putting peror Claudius. The titles of many of his works
the armour of a pigmy on a colossus. (Philostr. are mentioned by Diogenes and Suidas. (Vossius,
Vit. Sopia. ii. 26, comp. i. 19.) de Histor. Gr-aec. p. 78, &c. Kiler, Fraymenta de
7. A comic poet. [HERACLEITUS.] Rebus publicis, Hal. Sax. 1804; Roulez, Cornmen8. Of Sinope: under this name we possess a tatio de Vita et Scriptis Heraclitdae Pontic., LoGreek epigram in the Greek Anthology (vii. 329). vanii, 1828; Deswert, Dissertatio de -Heraclide
It is not improbable that two other epigrams (vii. Pont., Lovanii, 1830.) [G. E. L. C.]
281, 465) are likewise his productions, though his HERACLEIDES, artists. 1. A sculptor of
native place is not mentioned there. He seems to Ephesus, the son of Agasias. His name is inscribed,
have been a poet of some celebrity, as Diogenes with that of Harmatius, on the restored statue of
La'rtius (v., 94) mentions him as &rrypacdq'wrav wAres in the Royal Museum at Paris. It cannot
7roL0r)S ALsyvpos. Diogenes LaSrtius (I. c.) men- be said with certainty whether his father, Agasias,
tions fourteen persons of this name. [L. S.] was the celebrated Ephesian sculptor of that name,'HERACLEIDES ('HpaKAhAsG7s), son of Euthy- but it seems probable that he -was. (Miiller,
phron or Euphron, born at Heracleia, in Pontus, Archiol. d. Kunst. ~ 175, n. 3, ~ 372, n. 5;
and said by Suidas to have been descended from Clarac, Description des Antiques du Musee Royal,
Damis, one of those who originally led the colony No. 411, p. 173.)
from Thebes to Heracleia. He was a person of 2.' A Macedonian painter, who was at first
considerable wealth, and migrated to Athens, where merely a painter of ships, but afterwards acquired
-he became a pupil of Plato, and Suidas says that, some distinction as a painter in encaustic. He
during Plato's absence in Sicily, his school was lived in the time of Perseus, after whose fall he
left under the care of Heracleides. He paid at- ewent to Athens, B. c. 168. (Plin. xxxv. 11. s. 40.
tention also to the Pythagorean system, and after- ~~ 30, 42.)
wards attended the instructions of Speusippus, and 3. A Phocian sculptor, of whom nothing more
finally of Aristotle. He appears to have been a is known. (Diog. Laert. v. 94.)
vain and luxurious man, and so fat, that the 4. An architect, in the time of Trajan, who is
Athenians punned on his surname, IlovMrC's, and known by two inscriptions found in Egypt. (Muturned it into nocrumcds. Diogenes Lairrtius (v. 86, ratori, p. 478, 3; Letronne, Recueil des Inscript.
&c.) gives a long list of his writings, from which Grecq. et Latin. de l'Eyypte, vol. i. p. 426.) [P. S.]
it appears that he wrote upon philosophy, mathe- HERACLEIDES ('HpatKAel qs), the name of
matics, music, history, politics, grammar, and several ancient Greek physicians. 1. The sixteenth
poetry; but unfortunately almost all these works are in descent from Aesculapius, the son of Hippocrates
lost. There has come down to us a small work, I., who lived probably in the fifth century B.C.
under the name of Heracleides, entitled 7rep Ils- He married Phaenarete, or, according to others,'tTELwrv, which is perhaps an extract from the 7repl Praxithea, by whom lie had two sons, Sosander