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]

Notes

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, p. 14 

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "^{article name needed}". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 

This philosopher studied mathematical equations, and rhetoric.