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Strabon, Geographia

Passus 14, 2, 15 [b] (C 656): Κνίδιος [ethnic]

Date: AD 15 - 23 about?
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Status: ethnicon
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Details: 'Notable Knidioi were: first Eudoxos the mathematician, one of the comrades of Platon; then Agatharchides, one of the Peripatetics, a historian; and, in my own time, Theopompos, the friend of the deified Caesar, being a man of great influence with him, and his son Artemidoros. Thence, also, came Ktesias, who served Artaxerxes as physican and wrote the works entitled Assyrica and Persica.'
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