first and most celebrated architect of antiquity, was, according to Vitruvius, born at Alanbada, a city in Caria. He built a tem- ple of Diana at Magnesia; another of Bacchus at Tros; and was the inventor of several parts of archi- tecture. He composed a book on the subject, which is lost.

Hermogenes Tarasius, a rhetorician and orator, and who was in every respect a prodigy. At 17 years of age he published his system of rhetoric, and at 20 his philosophical ideas; but at 25 he forgot every thing he had known. It is said, that his body being opened after his death, his heart was found of an ex- traordinary size, and all over hairy. He died about 168 B.C.