Acrion

Acrion was a Locrian and a Pythagorean philosopher.^[1] He is mentioned by Valerius Maximus^[2] under the name of Arion. According to William Smith, Arion is a false reading, instead of Acrion.^[3]

Notes

1. Cicero, De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum v. 29
2. Valerius Maximus, viii. 7, ext. 3, from this passage of Cicero
3. Smith, William (1867), "Acrion", in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1, p. 14

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "^{article name needed}". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.

This philosopher studied mathematical equations, and rhetoric.