Pliny, give measurements in days of sail, indicating their navigational origin and purpose.
A M used Xenopho ̄n as a source.
NP 12/2.643–644, H.A. Gärtner.
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Xouthos (450 – 350 BCE)
A, Physics 4.9 (216b22–27), cites his clever turn of phrase in his discussion of
“micro-voids” interspersed within matter allowing for compression and rarefaction of
matter yielding to other matter, without which “the universe would billow (kumanei).” Per-
haps of Kroto ̄n, if I, VP 267 “Bouthos” should read “Xouthos.” S,
ad loc. (CAG 7 [1882] p. 683.24), calls him a Pythagorean.
DK 33.
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XOUTHOS