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SCYLAX

Volume 19 · 57 words · 1823 Edition

a celebrated mathematician and geographer of Caria, flourished under the reign of Darius Hystaspes, about 558 B.C. Some have attributed to him the invention of geographical tables. We have under his name a geographical work published by Hosechelius; but it is written by a much later author, and is perhaps only an abridgement of Scylax's Ancient Geography.