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430 HERODICUS. HERODOR US.
perished. Another epitome is extant in a MS. in p. 219 c.) calls the Crateteian (d Kpa'fetlos), and
the Bodleian library (Cod. Baroce. clxxix.), and an who is quoted by the Scholiast on Homer (11. xiii.
index of the subjects of the different books in Cod. 29, xx. 53) as differing from Aristarchus. (Comp.
Matrit. xxxvii. The treatise rIepl TOvwvo, pub- Athen. v. p. 192. b.) His time cannot be certainly
lished under the name of Arcadius, but which was fixed, but in all probability he was one of the imcompiled by a later grammarian, Theodosius of mediate successors of Crates of Mallus, and one of
Byzantium, seems also to be an extract from the the chief supporters of the critical school of Crates
rlpoo-T1a of Herodianus. 10. Ilepl Morr'povs against the followers of Aristarchus. He wrote a.AeSews, on monosyllabic words, published by Din- work on comedy, entitled Kw,8oopo.eva, after the
dorf. (Grammat. Graec. vol. i.) This is probably example of the Tpa7 yWoLoJuea of Asclepiades Tragithe only complete treatise of Herodianus that we lensis. (Athen. xiii. p. 586, a. p. 591, c.; Harpopossess. 11. lep AtLXpovwOv, portions of which crat. s. V. ZvY7rhn; Schol. in Aristoph. Vesp. 1231,
are extant in Bekker (Anecd. p. 1438), and Cra- where the common reading'Apudzsos should be
mer (Aneed. Oxon. iii. p. 282, &c.). changed to'HpJ68icos.) Athenaeus (viii. p. 340,
The names of a few other treatises are enumer- e.) also refers to his urlszp'u a v'ropuvisaTa, and in
ated by Fabricius, but it is very likely that many another passage (v. p. 215, f.) to his books Ilpds
of them were merely portions of greater works, rap, lAofoowpadvW,. (Ionsius, de Script. Hist. Phil.
The following fragments (either of distinct treatises ii. 13; Wolf, Proleg. p. cclxxvii. not. 65; Fabric.
or of different portions of his larger works) have Bibl. Graec. vol. i. p. 515; Meineke, Hist. Crit.
also been preserved:-l. nepI 7rc- a dpdPflAY (in Corn. Graec. pp. 13, 14; Jacobs, Anth. Grace. vol.
Gaza's Introd. Gramm. Venice, 1495, and in the xiii. p. 903; Vossius, de Hist. Graea. pp. 182, 183,
glossaries attached to. the Thesaurus of Stephanus). ed. Westermann.) [P. S.]
2. flapeioAal tze-yatov'PT1saTros. 3. rlapayw'ya2 HERO'DICUS ('HpJ6SKos), a physician of SelyauvOcKIrov'P-/1-ccdw. 4. rIepl'EyKicLVO/IYYvwv Kal bria or Selymbria in Thrace, who lived in the fifth'EyKcXvlaKYv Kia! 4veYYKXLT1KCr Moplow. (These century B. c. He was one of the tutors of Hippothree are preserved in the Thesaurus Cornucop. et crates (Suid. s. v.'I1r7roKcpds; Sorani Vita HipHorti Adon. Venice, 1496, and the last of them in pocr.; Jo. Tzetz. Chil. vii. Hist. 155.'ap. Fabric.
Bekker's Anecdota, iii. p. 1142.) 5. ZroT0,eeva Bibl. Graec. vol.xii. p. 681, ed. vet.). He is menKard. KAiLv 7ravTos Vd ToO A&yov Mep;v (in tioned, together with Iccus of Tarentum, as being
Cramer's Anecdota Oxon. iii. p. 246, &c.). 6. one of the first persons who applied gymnastics to
Iepl?Hapaywycav repvtv dir AlaXetcnv, and the treatment of disease and the preservation of
rIepl KAhrecys'Ovolodrcov (in Cramer's An. Oxon. health. (Plat. Protag. ~ 20. p. 316; Lucian,
iii. p. 228, &c.). 7. Two fragments, nepl Bapga- Quomodo Histor. sit conscrib. ~ 35.) He was not
plAoov ial oaolKaCouaolo (appended to Valckenaer's only a physician, but also a wraL&otrpelns, or gymedition of Ammonius, and in the appendices of the nastic-master (Plat. De Rep. iii. p. 406), and a
Thesaurus of Stephanus. The latter of them also sophist (Id. Protag. 1. c.), and was induced to
in Boissonade's Aneedota, iii. p. 241). 8. A frag- study gymnastics in a medical point of view, from
ment, entitled simply'ECK TCV'HpwcCavoi (in Bach- having himself been benefited by them. From a
mann's Anecdota Graeca, ii. p. 402, and elsewhere). passage in Plato (Phaedr. init., et Schol.), it has
9. 4I,-Tat pos (appended to Pierson's edition of been supposed that he used to order his patients to
Moeris, and also published separately at Leipzig, walk from Athens to IMegara, and to return as
1831). 10. Ilepl Vx?,Lrcorv (in Villoison's Anecd. soon as they had reached the walls of the latter
Gr. ii. p. 87). 11. Ilepl s AXe6S eno s'rv IrtXW, town. The distance, however, which would be
(in Villoison, Anecd. vol. ii., and the appendix to more than seventy miles, renders this quite imDraco Stratonicensis, Leipzig, 1814). 12. Kavoves possible; nor do the words of Plato necessarily
7irepl SvAhAagov'EK'd&ecS Kaicai va'oAis olacaq- imply that he ever gave any such directions. A
a&voPrES (extant in a Parisian MS. according to passage also in the sixth book of Hippocrates, De
Bast, RMpertoire de Lit. anc. p. 415). 13. fIepl Morbis Vulgaribus (vi. 3, vol. iii. p. 599), has been
A00vnrov'acr6 icail'AvtnroTraCrTV (in Bekker's quoted as confirming Plato's words, and accusing
Anecd. iii. p. 1086). 14. liepl'AKvpohoytas (in Herodicus of killing his patients by walking, &c.;
Boissonade's Anecd. iii. 262, &c., and Cramer's but the reading in this place is uncertain, and M.
Anecd. iii. p. 263, &c., where some other less im- Littrd considers that we should probably read Ilp6portant fragments will be found). There are a few hucos, and not'HpO'rKos (Oeuvres d'Hippocr. vol.
more fragments, not worth mentioning here. (Fa- i. p. 51). It should, however, be added, that
bric. Bibl. Graec. vi. pp. 278, &c.) [C. P. M.] Galen, in his commentary on the above passage
HERODIA'NUS, a general under the emperor (iii. 31, vol. xvii. pt. ii. p. 99), though he reads
Justinian. [JUSTINIANUS.] lpo'uKcos, considers him to be the same person who
HERO'DICUS ('Hp6AKcos). 1. An historical is mentioned by Plato; and Pliny, when he
writer, who lived in the time of Pericles, and was speaks of Prodices (H. N. xxix. 2), is probably
contemporary with Thrasymachus of Chalcedon and alluding to him also. He is mentioned by several
Polus of Agrigentum. (Aristot. Rhet. ii. 23, 29, other ancient authors; as Plutarch (De Sera Num.
and Schol; Vossius, de Hist. Graec. p. 36, ed. Vind. c. 9.), Aristotle.(De Rhet. i. 5. ~ 10), EusWestermann.) tathius (ad 1. i. p. 763, 16), Caelius Aurelianus
2. Of Babylon, whose epigram, attacking the (De Morb. Chron. v. 1), and in Cramer's Aneed.
grammarians of the school of Aristarchus, is quoted Graec. Paris. vol. iii. [W. A. G.]
by Athenaeus (v. p. 222), and is included in the HERODO'RUS ('Hpg6o&pos). 1. A native of
Greek Anthology. (Brunck, Anal. vol. ii. p. 65; Heracleia, in Pontus (hence called sometimes 6
Jacobs, Anth. Graec. vol. ii. p. 64.) From the sub- frovT'rc6s, sometimes d'HpaKAhes'.T7s), who appears
ject of this epigram it may be safely inferred that to have lived about the time of Hecataeus of Mithis Herodicus of Babylon was the same person as letus and Pherecydes, in the latter part of the
the grammarian Herodicus, whom Athenaeus (v. sixth century B. C. His son Bryson, the sophist,