2. Of Thessaly, a military engineer, who made improvements in the covered battering-ram (testudo arietaria) during Philip's siege of Byzantium, B. C. 340. His pupils were Diades and Chaereas, who served in the campaigns of Alexander. (Vitr. 10.19. s. 13.3, Schneider.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology
Smith, William
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890