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 of Acrion.[3]

Notes

Cicero, De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum v. 29
Valerius Maximus, viii. 7, ext. 3, from this passage of Cicero
Smith, William (1867), "Acrion", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1, p. 14

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