Heraclides

Hēraclīdes, ae, m., a proper name.

• I A physician, Cels. 3, 6.—
• II Called Ponticus, a Greek philosopher of Heraclea in Pontus, a pupil of Plato and Speusippus, and afterwards of Aristotle, Cic. Leg. 3, 6; id. Tusc. 5, 3, 8 al.—
• III Heraclides Ponticus the younger, a grammarian, Gell. ap. Prisc. 705 P.—
• IV A painter, Plin. 35, 11, 40, § 135.

Hēraclīdes, ae, v. Hercules, II. E.

Hērāclīdēs, ae, m. (Ἡρακλείδης), I) ein Nachkomme des Herakles (Herkules), ein Heraklide, Vell. 1, 2. § 1 u. 3. Solin. 2, 10. Cl. Mamert. pan. Maxim. 9. 4. – II) Heraclides Ponticos od. Ponticus, aus Heraklea am Pontus, griech. Philosoph, Schüler des Plato u. Speusippus, später des Aristoteles, Varro sat. Men. 81 u. 445. Cic. Tusc. 5, 8 u.a. – III) Heraclides Ponticus der jüngere, ein Grammatiker, Gell. fr. bei Prisc. 6, 61.

Hērăclīdēs, (13) æ, m. (Ἡρακλείδης), descendant dʼHercule, v. Heraclidæ || Héraclide du Pont [ philosophe] : Cic. Tusc. 5, 8 || grammairien : Gell. d. Prisc. Gramm. 6, 61.

Heraclīdes

(Ἡρακλείδης). (1) Surnamed Pontĭcus. A Greek philosopher, born at Heraclea in Pontus about B.C. 380. He came early to Athens, where he became a disciple of Plato and Aristotle, and had made a reputation by about B.C. 340. He was the author of some sixty works on a great variety of subjects—philosophy, mathematics, music, grammar, poetry, political and literary history, and geography. He was a learned and interesting writer, but somewhat deficient in critical power. There are a few fragments of his works remaining, besides an extract from a book on constitutions which bears his name, edited by Köler (Halle, 1804), Coraës (Paris, 1805), and Müller. See Deswert, De Heraclide Pontico (Louvain, 1830), and F. W. Schmidt, De Heraclidae Pontici etc. Dialogis Deperditis (Breslau, 1867).

(2) A Syracusan, the son of Lysimachus, and one of the generals when Syracuse was attacked by the Athenians in B.C. 415.

(3) A commander of the mercenary troops under the younger Dionysius at Syracuse. He subsequently joined Dion in expelling Dionysius, and was himself assassinated in B.C. 354.

(4) A physician of Tarentum who flourished in the second century B.C. and wrote on Materia Medica.

Heraclides Heraclides, a man of Cyme

• Hdt. 1.158, Hdt. 5.37

Heraclides(2), a man of Mylasa

• a Carian leader: Hdt. 5.121

Heraclides(3), an Alexandrian

• Olympic victor: Paus. 5.21.13ff.

Heraclides (4), president at Delphi

• Paus. 10.2.3