He'licon
(
Ἑλικών), a native of Cyzicus, a friend and disciple of Plato.
He was for some time a resident at the court of Dionysius the Younger, and was presented by him with a talent of silver for having correctly predicted an eclipse of the sun. (Plut.
Dion. p. 966.)
According to Suidas (
s. v.), he wrote a work entitled
Ἀποτελέσματα, and a treatise
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