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Alexander (Alexandros) of Myndus in Caria, a Greek writer on zoology of uncertain
date. His works, which are now lost, must have been considered very valuable by
the ancients, since they refer to them very frequently. The titles of his works
are: Ktenon Historia, a long fragment of which, belonging to the second book,
is quoted by Athenaeus (v.ii.; Aelian, Hist. An. iii. 23, iv. 33, v. 27, x. 34).
This work is probably the same as that which in other passages is simply called
Peri Zoon, and of which Athenaeus (ix.) likewise quotes the second book. The work
on birds (Peri Ptenon, Plut. Mar. 17; Athen. ix) was a separate work, and the
second book of it is quoted by Athenaeus. Diogenes Laertius (i. 29) mentions one
Alexon of Myndus as the author of a work on myths, of which he quotes the ninth
book. This author being otherwise unknown, Menage proposed to read Alexandros
ho Mundios instead of Alexon. But everything is uncertain, and the cojecture at
least is not very probable.
Botryas (Botruas), of Myndus, is one of the writers whom Ptolemy, the son of Hephaestion made use of in compiling his " New History." (Phot., a., 21, ed. Bekker.)
Eusebius, of Myndus in Caria, a distinguished New Platonist and contemporary of Eunaplus, who mentions him (p. 48, ed. Boissonade), and ranks him in what is called the golden chain of New Platonists. Stobaeus, in his Sermones, has preserved a considerable number of ethical fragments from the work of one Eusebius, whom some consider to be the same as the New Platonist, whereas others are inclined to attribute them to a Stoic of that name. (Wyttenbach, ad Eunap. p. 171.)
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