person
Serapion
also: Serapion of Antioch
A Greek mathematical geographer whose technical treatise Atticus sent to Cicero in 59 BC and which Cicero professed scarcely to understand. Cited at Att. 2.6 as a critic of Eratosthenes.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 2.4 §1 Serapion's book
Serapion of Antioch, a Greek geographer whose technical treatise Atticus had sent. Cicero's quip that he understands scarcely a thousandth part of it is mock-modesty about its mathematical difficulty.