Heraclides Lembus
Heraclides Lembus (or Herakleides Lembos) was an Ancient Greek philosophical writer. He was an Egyptian civil servant who lived during the reign of Ptolemy VI Philometor (2nd century BC).[1] He is said to have negotiated the treaty that ended Antiochus IV's invasion of Egypt in 169 BC.[1] According to Diogenes Laërtius he wrote an epitome of Sotion's Successions of Philosophers,[2] and an epitome of Satyrus' Lives.[3] He also epitomized Hermippus's On Lawgivers.[4] Excerpts he made of works of Aristotle give surviving fragments of lost works of the latter. These were published in 1847 as Heraclidis politiarum quae extant, by F. G. Schneidewin.
References
- Heraclidis Lembi; excerpta politiarum (1971), editor and translator Mervin R. Dilts
- Miroslav Marcovich, Heraclidis Lembi Excerpta Politiarum, The American Journal of Philology, Vol. 96, No. 1 (Spring, 1975), pp. 16-18