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Heracleides
/ ˈpɒntəs; ˌhɛrəˈklaɪdiːz /
noun
- Heracleides?390 bc?322 bcMGreekSCIENCE: astronomerPHILOSOPHY: philosopher ?390–?322 bc , Greek astronomer and philosopher: the first to state that the earth rotates on its axis
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For Heracleides would be unable to take care of it: he has been named to the city council.
Synphoron, of Carystos, daughter of Heracleides.—Athens?
But Heracleides and Hestiacus, Speusippus and Xenocrates were also present and wrote similar reports.
Dion himself was soon after supplanted by the intrigues of Heracleides, and again banished.
Consequently, after the Prytanes had tried many devices in vain in order to induce the populace to come and ratify the votes, Agyrrhius, in the first instance, made a provision of one obol a day, which Heracleides of Clazomenae, nicknamed 'the king', increased to two obols, and Agyrrhius again to three.
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