Vitae philosophorum

These authors forget that the achievements which they attribute to the barbarians belong to the Greeks, with whom not merely philosophy but the human race itself began. For instance, Musaeus is claimed by Athens, Linus by Thebes. It is said that the former, the son of Eumolpus, was the first to compose a genealogy of the gods and to construct a sphere, and that he maintained that all things proceed from unity and are resolved again into unity. He died at Phalerum, and this is his epitaph[*](Anth. Pal. vii. 615.):

Musaeus, to his sire Eumolpus dear,
1. In Phalerean soil lies buried here;

and the Eumolpidae at Athens get their name from the father of Musaeus.