Acrion

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

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, 1, pp. 14, http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0023.html 

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