Note 1131 — BOOK XXXIII. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF METALS.647 (continued 2)
John Bostock translation
His country is uncertain. According to the statements of Pausanias, B. i. c. 28, he must have been a contemporary of Phidias, about Olymp. 84, B.C. 444. He is mentioned also by Propertius, Martial, and Statius.