Clei'tophon
(
Κλειτοφῶν), a Rhodian author of uncertain date, to whom we find the following works ascribed: 1.
Γαλατρικά, a history of the Gauls, from which Plutarch (
Parallel. Min. 15) gives a story, parallel to that of Tarpeia in Livy, of a woman of Ephesus, who betrayed the town to Brennus. 2.
Ἰνδικά, from the tenth book of which Plutarch (
de Fluv. 25.3) quotes a medical recipe for the jaundice. 3.
Ἰταλικά. 4.
Κτίσεις, a work on the origin of different cities (Plut.
de Fluv. 6.4), from which we obtain one theory on the etymology of Lugdunum. (See Voss.
de Hist. Graec. pp. 418, 419.)
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