Acrion

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Acrion was a Locrian and a Pythagorean philo­sopher.^[1] He is mentioned by Valerius Maximus^[2] under the name of Arion, which is a false reading, instead of Acrion.^[3]

[edit] References

1. ^ Cicero, De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum v. 29
2. ^ Valerius Maximus, viii. 7, ext. 3, from this pas­sage of Cicero
3. ^ Smith, William (1867), “Acrion”, in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, pp. 14 

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).