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HERACLIDES OF PONTUS

Volume 10 · 63 words · 1815 Edition

a Greek philosopher, the disciple of Speusippus, and afterwards of Aristotle, flourished about 336 B. C. His vanity prompted him to desire one of friends to put a serpent into his bed just as he was dead, in order to raise a belief that he was ascended to the heavens among the gods: but the cheat was discovered. All his works are lost.