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CLEITARCHUS , one of the historians of See also:Alexander the See also:Great, son of Deinon, also an historian, was possibly a native of See also:Egypt, or at least spent a considerable See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time at the See also:court of See also:Ptolemy Lagus. See also:Quintilian (Instit. x. 1. 74) credits him with more ability than trustworthiness, and See also:Cicero (See also:Brutus, 11) accuses him of giving a fictitious See also:account of the See also:death of See also:Themistocles. But there is no doubt that his See also:history was very popular, and much used by Diodorus Siculus, See also:Quintus See also:Curtius, See also:Justin and See also:Plutarch, and the authors of the Alexander romances. His unnatural and exaggerated See also:style became proverbial.
The fragments, some See also:thirty in number, chiefly preserved in See also:Aelian and See also:Strabo, will be found in C. See also:- MULLER, FERDINAND VON, BARON (1825–1896)
- MULLER, FRIEDRICH (1749-1825)
- MULLER, GEORGE (1805-1898)
- MULLER, JOHANNES PETER (18o1-1858)
- MULLER, JOHANNES VON (1752-1809)
- MULLER, JULIUS (18oi-1878)
- MULLER, KARL OTFRIED (1797-1840)
- MULLER, LUCIAN (1836-1898)
- MULLER, WILHELM (1794-1827)
- MULLER, WILLIAM JAMES (1812-1845)
Muller's Scriptores Rerum Alexandri Magni (in the See also:Didot See also:Arrian, 1846) ; monographs by C. Raun, De Clitarcho Diodori, Curtii, Justini auctore (1868), and F. See also:Reuss, " Hellenistische Beitrage " in Rhein. See also:Mus. lxiii. (1908), pp. 58-78.
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