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Headword:
Kleoxenos
Adler number: kappa,1726
Translated headword: Kleoxenos, Cleoxenus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Kleoxenos] and Demokleitos wrote about fire-signals;
Polybios of
Megalopolis made use of their work, as he says in his historical writings.
Greek Original:Kleoxenos kai Dêmokleitos egrapsan peri pursôn: hôn tên pragmateian epexeirgasato Polubios ho Megalopolitês, hôs legei en tois historoumenois.
Note:
Polybius 10.45.6. (For another writer in the genre, also mentioned by
Polybius, see
alphaiota 215.) Perhaps early C2 BCE, though they are unattested outside these two references. On fire-signals see also
phi 757.
Keywords: biography; historiography; history; military affairs; science and technology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 20 July 2001@08:49:28.
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