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

19. Surnamed LOGISTICUS, appears to have been a mathematician, if as is usually supposed, he is the same as the one who is called ἀριφμητικός. (D. L. 1.25, 8.12; Athen. 10.418.) Whether he is the same as the Apollodotus of whom Plutarch (Non posse vivi secund. Epic. p. 1094) quotes two lines, is not quite certain.