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

3. The author of the work quoted by Pliny (Plin. Nat. 20.81), and entitled Ἐπιτομὴ τῶν Ῥιζοτομουμένων, appears to have been a different person (though sometimes reckoned as the same), and may be supposed to have been a contemporary of Cratevas in the first century B. C. (Plin. Nat. 25.4.)