PHLEGON  , of

Tralles in Asia Minor, Greek writer and freed-man of the emperor Hadrian, flourished in the and century A.D . His chief work was the Olympiads, an historical compendium in sixteen books, from the 1st down to the 229th Olympiad (776 B.C. to A.D . 137), of which several chapters are preserved in Photius and Syncellus . Two small works by him are extant: On Marvels, containing some ridiculous stories about ghosts, prophecies and monstrous births, but instructive as regards ancient superstitions ;-On Long-lived Persons, a list of Italians who had passed the age of ioo, taken from the Roman censuses . Other works ascribed to Phlegon by Suidas are a description of Sicily, a work on the Roman festivals in three books, and a topography of Rome . Fragments in C . Muller, Frag. hist. graec. iii.; ofthe Marvels and Long-lived in O . Keller, Rerum naturalium scriptores, i . (1877); see also H . Diels, " Phlegons Androgynenorakel " in Sibyllinische Bldlter (1890) .