Note 1132 — BOOK XXXIII. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF METALS.647 (continued 2)
John Bostock translation
His birth-place is unknown, but he probably lived about the time of Phidias, and we learn from Pausanias that he was living when the plague ceased at Athens, in B.C. 429. He is mentioned also by Cicero, Ovid, Quintilian, Lucian, and Dionysius of Halicarnassus.