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Acrion was a Locrian from Magna Graecia and a Pythagorean philosopher.[1] He is mentioned by Valerius Maximus[2] under the name of Arion. According to William Smith, Arion is a false reading of Acrion.[3]

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  1. ^ Cicero, De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum v.(29)87
  2. ^ Valerius Maximus, viii.7, ext.3, from this passage of Cicero
  3. ^ Smith, William (1867), "Acrion", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, p. 14

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