APOLLONIUS

APOLLONIUS of Perga, a city of Pamphylia, was a great geometrician, under the reign of Ptolemy Euergetes, which reaches from the 2^d year of the 133^d Olymp. to the 3^d year of the 139^th. He studied a long time at Alexandria, under the disciples of Euclid; and composed several works, of which that only of the Conics remains.