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Heraclides Lembus ( ''Hērakleidēs Lembos'') was an Ancient Greek statesman, historian and philosophical writer. Heraclides was an Egyptian civil servant who lived during the reign of Ptolemy VI Philometor (2nd century BC).〔Suda, ''Heraclides'' η462〕 The Suda mentions a Heraclides of Oxyrhynchus,〔 but according to Diogenes Laërtius〔Diogenes Laërtius, v. 94〕 he originated from Callatis or Alexandria. He was also named the son of Sarapion ('Lembus' is a nickname meaning 'cockboat'). He is said to have negotiated the treaty that ended Antiochus IV's invasion of Egypt in 169 BC.〔 That Agatharchides of Cnidus became known by being his secretary is further evidence to his importance in the Ptolemaic administration.〔Photius ''Bibliotheca'' Cod. 213, 171a. P. M. Fraser, ''Ptolemaic Alexandria'' I, p. 174〕 ==Works== His works (mainly excerpts and epitomes from earlier writers) survive only in fragments. * ''Histories'' (Ἱστορίαι) in at least 37 books, dealing with historical and mythological subjects. The five extant fragments exhibit: the foundation of Rome by Greeks returning from the Trojan war;〔Festus 269〕 human beauty highly esteemed in Sparta;〔Athenaeus, ''Deipnosophistae'' 13.566a〕 a frog plague;〔Athenaeus 8.333a-b, from Book 21〕 Demetrius Poliorcetes and his father Antigonus Monophthalmus in love with the same courtesan;〔Athenaeus 13.578a-b, from Book 36〕 philological eccentricities concerning Alexarchus, the brother of Cassander inventing words.〔Athenaeus 3.98e, from Book 37〕 An epitome was, presumably, made by Hero of Athens,〔Suda, ''Heron'' η552〕 a rhetor tentatively dated to the first century AD.〔Wilhelm Kroll, "Heron (4)". ''Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft'' VIII,1 (1945) Sp. 992.〕 * ''Lembeutikos Logos'' (Λεμβευτικὸς λόγος), about which nothing is known, apart from an obscure connection to his nickname.〔 * an epitome of Sotion's ''Successions of Philosophers''.〔Diogenes Laërtius v. 79; viii. 7; x. 1〕 * an epitome of Satyrus' ''Lives''.〔Diogenes Laërtius, viii. 40; ix. 26〕 * an epitome of Hermippus's ''On Lawgivers''.〔POxy. XI.1367〕 * excerpts he made of Aristotle's ''Constitutions'' and ''Customs and Traditions of the Barbarians'' (Νόμιμα βαρβαρικά). The fragments of these largely lost works (only the ''Constitution of the Athenians'' extant) were published in 1847 as ''Heraclidis politiarum quae extant'', by F. G. Schneidewin. * a biography of Archimedes (doubtful), mentioned by Eutocius.〔''Commentarius in dimensionem circuli'' (''Archimedis opera omnia'' ed. Heiberg-Stamatis (1915), vol. 3, p. 228); ''Commentaria in conica'' (''Apollonii Pergaei quae Graece exstant'', ed. Heiberg (1893) vol. 2, p. 168: "Hērakleios")〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Heraclides Lembus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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