a celebrated architect of Macedonia, who rebuilt the temple of Ephesus, when burned by Erostratus, with much more magnificence than before. Vitruvius informs us that Dinocrates proposed to Alexander the Great to convert mount Athos into the figure of a man, whose left hand should contain a walled city, and all the rivers of the mount flow into his right, and fall thence into the sea? He also conceived a scheme for building the dome of the temple of Arsinoe at Alexandria, of loadstone; that should by its attraction uphold her iron image in the centre, suspended in the air! Projects which at least showed a vast extent of imagination.

DIO Cassius, a famous Greek historian, a native of Nicea, a city of Phrygia, was governor of Pergamus and Smyrna, and commanded in Africa and Pannonia. In the year 229, he was raised by Alexander Severus to the dignity of consul; but not being agreeable to the troops, was obliged to retire to the place of his birth, where he ended his days. He composed a Roman History in Greek, a part of which only has been handed down to us. He is accused of partiality against Pompey, Cicero, Seneca, and several other great men. He is chiefly esteemed for the speeches he puts into the mouths of Agrippa and Mecenas, when Augustus advised with them whether he should preserve the empire, or restore the ancient government.