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tion of Schweighiiuser, Argentorati et Paris. 1806, history beginning with the death of Agathias.
6 vols. in 12 parts (reprinted in London, 1818, in (Suid. s. v. ME'Yavspos; Codinus, de Orig. Constant.
6 vols., and the Lexicon Herodoteum of Schweig- p. 26; Malalas, Chron. i. p. 200.) It should be
haiuser separately in ]824 and 1841, 8vo.). The observed that in MSS. and early editions the name
editor bad compared several new MSS., and was of Herodotus is frequently confounded with Herothus enabled to give a text greatly superior to that dorus and Heliodorus. Whether the work Ilepi
of his predecessors. The best edition after this is Tis'Oc15pov BLOTr, is the production of a grammar
that of Gaisford(Oxford, 1824, 4 vols. 8vo.), who rian of the name of Herodotus, or whether the
incorporated in it nearly all the notes of Wesseling, author's name is a mere invention, it is impossible
Valckenaer and Schweighiuser, and also made a to say; thus much only we know, that some of the
collation of some English MSS. A reprint of this ancients themselves attributed it to Herodotus the
edition appeared at Leipzig in 1824, 4 vols. 8vo. historian. (Steph. Byz. s. v. Neov 7ETXos; Suid. s. v.
The last great edition, in which the subject-matter'Oy?7pos; Eustath. ad Hom. II. p. 876.) [L. S.]
also is considered with reference to modern dis- HERO'DOTUS, a statuary of Olynthus, concoveries, is that of Bihr, Leipzig, 1830, &c. 4 temporary with Praxiteles, made statues of Phryne
vols. 8vo. Among the school editions, we men- and other courtesans. (Tatian,. Orat. Graec. 53,
tion those of A. Matthiae, Leipzig, 1825, 2 vols. 54.) [P. S.]
8vo.; G. Long, London, 1830; and I. Bekker, HERO'DOTUS ('HpOD-rOS), the name of several
Berlin, 1833 and 1837, 8vo.. Among all the physicians, of whom the most eminent was, 1. A
translations of Herodotus, there is none which sur- pupil of Athenaeus, or perhaps rather of Agathinus
passes in excellence and fidelity the German of Fr. (Galen, De Diffir. Puls. iv. 11, vol. viii. p. 751)
Lange, Breslau, 1811, &c,, 2 vols. 8vo. The who belonged to the sect of the Pneumatici (Id.
works written on Herodotus, or particular points of De Simplic. Medicamn. Temper. ac Facult. i. 29,
his work, are extremely numerous: a pretty com- vol. xi. p. 432). He lived probably towards the
plete account of the modern literature of Herodotus end of the first century after Christ, and resided
is given by Biihr in the Neue Jahrbiicher fir Phi- at Rome, where he practised with great reputation
lologie und Paedagogik, vol. xli. p. 371, &c.; but we and success. (Galen, De Diaer. Pals. I. c.) He
shall confine ourselves to mentioning the principal wrote some medical works, which are several times
ones among them, viz., J. Rennell, The Geogra- quoted by Galen and Oribasius, but of which only
phicel System of Herodotus, London, 1800, 4to, some fragments remain, most of which are to be
and 1832, 2 vols. 8vo.; B. G. Niebuhr, in his found in Matthaei's Collection entitled XXI YeKleine Philol. Schriften, vol. i.; -Dahlmann, Hero- terum et Clarorum AIedicorzum Graecorum Varia
dot, aes seinern Buche sein Leben, Altona, 1823, Opuscula, Mosqu. 4to. 1808.
8vo., one of the best works that was ever written; 2. The son of Arieus, a native either of Tarsus
C. G. L. Heyse, De Herodoti Vita et Itineribus, or Philadelphia, who probably belonged to the sect
Berlin, 1826, 8vo.; H. F. Jliger, Disputationes of the Empirici. He was a pupil of Menodotus,
Herodoteae, Gittingen, 1828, 8vo.; J. Kenrick, and tutor to Sextus Empiricus, and lived therefore
The Egypt of Herodotus, with notes and preliminary in the former half of the second century after
dissertations, London, 1841, 8vo.; Biihr, Com- Christ. (Suidas, s. v. et'oros; Diog. Laert. ix.
pnentatio de Vita et Scriptis Herodoti, in the fourth ~ 116.)
volume of his edition, p. 374, &c.) 3. The physician mentioned by Galen (De
2. Of Chios, the son of Basilides, is mentioned Bon. et Prav. Aliment. Suce. c. 4. vol. vi. p. 775;
by Herodotus the historian (viii. 132) as one of the DDe Meth. Med. vii. 6. vol. x. p. 474), together
ambassadors who, after the battle of Salamis, ar- with Euryphon, as having recommended human
rived ii Aegina to call upon the Greeks to deliver milk in cases of consumption, was probably a difIonia. What may have induced the historian to ferent person from either of the preceding, and
mention him alone among the ambassadors is un- may have been a contemporary of Euryphon in the
certain. (See above, No. 1.) fifth century B. C.
3. A son of Apsodorus of Thebes, a victor in There is extant, under the name of Herodotus, a
the Heraclean, Isthmian, and other games, whose short Glossary of Ionic words, commonly printed
nameiscelebratedinPindar's firstIsthmianode. He together with the Glossary of Erotianus, and suplived about 01. 80-83; his father, being expelled posed to relate to the Hippocratic Collection.
from Thebes, had gone to Orchomenos, but after- Franzius, however, is inclined to the opinion that
wards returned to Thebes. (See Dissen, ad Pind. the little work is intended to explain, not the
iZ a~~~~e~~.) words used by. Hippocrates, but those used by
4. A brother of the philosopher Democritus Herodotus the historian, and that hence it has been
(Suid. s. e. Ar$cdKParS), and perhaps the same as attributed by mistake to a physician or grammathe one to whom Diogenes Lairtius (ix. 34) refers rian of the name of Herodotus.
in his account of Democritus. Whether he is iden- Some persons have attributed to a physician
tical with Herodotus, the author of a work Hepl named Herodotus two of. the treatises included in'ZIrKoVpov E4netnras (Diog. Lairt. x. 4), cannot be the collection of Galen's works, viz. the Introdsuctio
decided. or Medi us, and the DeJinitiones Medicae. But
5. Of Olophyxus in T'hrace, is mentioned as the though it may be doubted whether these works
author of a work Ilepl NvAcP63V Kal Fp@ay. (Steph. belong to Galen, it is equally doubtful whether
Byz. s.v.'OA&6pvos; Suid. s. v.'OAo0ctlzs;n Eus- they were written by Herodotus. (See Fabric.
tath. ad Hom. Il.:v. 683.) i Bibl. Graec. vol. xiii. p. 184, ed. vet.; J. G. F.
6. A logomimus, who lived at the court of An- Franz, Preface to his edition of the Glossaries of
tiochus IT., and was highly esteemed by that king. Erotianus, Gales, and Herodotus, Lips. 1780,
(Athen. i. p. 19.) 8vo.) [W. A. G.]
7. A brother of Menander Protector, lived in HERON (7Hpwv), a rhetorician, a native of
the time of -the emperor Mauritius,.and wrote a Athens, and son of Cotys. According to Suidas,