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Heracleides

/ ˈpɒntəs; ˌhɛrəˈklaɪdiːz /

noun

  1. 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.

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Synphoron, of Carystos, daughter of Heracleides.—Athens?

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But Heracleides and Hestiacus, Speusippus and Xenocrates were also present and wrote similar reports.

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Dion himself was soon after supplanted by the intrigues of Heracleides, and again banished.

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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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