Note 1130 — BOOK XXXIII. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF METALS.647 (continued 2)
John Bostock translation
From Pausanias we learn that he was a statuary and engraver on plate, born at Carthage; but Raoul Rochette thinks that he was a native of Chalcedon. He is mentioned also by Cicero, In Verrem, 4. 14, and in the Culex, l. 66, ascribed by some to Virgil.