They are followed by Posidonius the Stoic and his school, and Nicolaus and Sotion in the twelfth book of his work entitled , consisting of twenty-four books; also by Dionysius of Halicarnassus. They allege that he used to go round with his mother to cottages and read charms, and assist his father in his school for a pitiful feeCompare again Dem.§ 258.; further, that one of his brothers was a pander and lived with Leontion the courtesan; that he put forward as his own the doctrines of Democritus about atoms and of Aristippus about pleasure; that he was not a genuine Athenian citizen, a charge brought by Timocrates and by Herodotus in a book ; that he basely flattered Mithras,Mithras was a Syrian. Cf. Plut. 1097 b; 1126 e. the minister of Lysimachus, bestowing on him in his letters Apollo’s titles of Healer and Lord.