Heracleides
Heraclides of Pontus
noun
?390–?322 bc, Greek astronomer and philosopher: the first to state that the earth rotates on its axis
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Of this ambush the leader was Heracleides the son of Ibanollis, a man of Mylasa.
The History Of HerodotusHerodotus
With this answer Heracleides returned and told the king everything.
If it did exist, it was of no value to Ephorus, Heracleides, and the author of the Hipparchus.
The World of HomerAndrew Lang
According to Heracleides, the inundation took place in his time, and during the night.
Dion himself was soon after supplanted by the intrigues of Heracleides, and again banished.