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See also:ONESICRITUS, or ONESICRATES , of See also:Aegina or Astypaleia (probably simply the " old See also:city " of Aegina), one of the writers on See also:Alexander the See also:Great. At an advanced See also:age he became a See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of See also:Diogenes the Cynic, and gained such repute as a student of See also:philosophy that he was selected by Alexander to hold a See also:conference with the See also:Indian See also:Gymnosophists. When the See also:fleet was constructed on the Hydaspes, Onesicritus was appointed See also:chief See also:pilot (in his vanity he calls himself See also:commander), and in this capacity accompanied See also:Nearchus on the voyage from the mouth of the See also:Indus to the See also:Persian gulf. He wrote a diffuse See also:biography of Alexander, which in addition to See also:historical details contained descriptions of the countries visited, especially See also:India. After the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's See also:death, Onesicritus appears to have completed his See also:work at the See also:court of See also:Lysimachus, king of See also:Thrace. Its historical value was considered small, it being avowedly a See also:panegyric, and contemporaries (including even . Alexander himself) regarded it as untrustworthy. See also:Strabo especially takes Onesicritus to task for his exaggeration and love of the marvellous. His See also:Para plus (or description of the coasts of India) probably formed See also:part of the work, and, incorporated by See also:Juba II. of See also:Mauretania with the accounts of See also:coasting voyages by Nearchus and other geographers, and circulated by him under the name of Onesicritus, was largely used by See also:Pliny.
See See also:Arrian, See also:Anabasis, vi. 2; Indira, 32; Diogenes Laertius vi. 75; See also:Plutarch, Alexander, 46, 65; Strabo xv. 698; Pliny, Nat. Hist. vi. 26; Aulus See also:Gellius ix. 4; fragments and See also:life in C. W. 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, appendix to F. See also:Dubner's Arrian (1846); monograph by F. Lilie (See also:Bonn, 1864) ; E. H. See also:Bunbury, Hist. of See also:Ancient See also:Geography, 1. (1879) ; Meier in See also:Ersch and See also:Gruber's Allgemeine Encyclopadie.
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