Note 790 — BOOK II. AN ACCOUNT OF THE WORLD AND THE ELEMENTS. (continued 3)
John Bostock translation
Of Cyrene, born B.C. 276. He was invited from Athens by Ptolemy Euergetes, to become keeper of the library at Alexandria. He was a man of most extensive erudition, as an astronomer, geographer, philosopher, historian and grammarian. All of his writings have perished, with the exception of a few fragments on geographical subjects.