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Solutions of Homeric Problems, two books. Of Theorems, one book. On the Three Tragic Poets, one book. Characters, one book. Of Poetry and Poets, one book. Of Conjecture, one book. Concerning Prevision, one book. Expositions of Heraclitus, four books. Expositions in Reply to Democritus, one book. Solutions of Eristic Problems, two books. Logical Proposition, one book. Of Species, one book. Solutions, one book. Admonitions, one book. A Reply to Dionysius, one book.
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To rhetoric belongs: Of Public Speaking, or Protagoras.
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To history: On the Pythagoreans. Of Discoveries.
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Some of these works are in the style of comedy, for instance the tracts On Pleasure and On Temperance; others in the style of tragedy, as the books entitled Of those in Hades, Of Piety, and Of Authority.
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Again, he has a sort of intermediate style of conversation which he employs when philosophers, generals and statesmen converse with each other. Furthermore, he wrote geometrical and dialectical works, and is, besides, everywhere versatile and lofty in diction, and a great adept at charming the reader’s mind.
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It seems that he delivered his native city from oppressions by assassinating its ruler, as is stated in his work on Men of the Same Name by Demetrius of Magnesia, who also tells the following story about him: As a boy, and when he grew up, he kept a pet snake, and, being at the point of death, he ordered a trusted attendant to conceal the corpse but to place the snake on his bier, that he might seem to have departed to the gods.
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All this was done. But while the citizens were in the very midst of the procession and were loud in his praise, the snake, hearing the uproar, popped up out of the shroud, creating widespread confusion. Subsequently, however, all was revealed, and they saw Heraclides, not as he appeared, but as he really was.
