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EPHORUS

Volume 8 · 57 words · 1815 Edition

an orator and historian of Cumae in Æolis, about 352 years before Christ. He was disciple to Isocrates, by whose advice he wrote a history which gave an account of all the actions and battles that had happened between the Greeks and barbarians for 750 years. It was greatly esteemed by the ancients; but is now lost.