Ge?Ponik |
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Author:
| Owen, Thomas |
ISBN: | 978-0-217-83713-2 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2009 |
Publisher: | General Books LLC
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $19.99 |
Book Description:
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: entitled Boiotica; a treatise, called Dode- catechnon; two books, ond the art of dying; some books on agriculture.?Julius Pollux', lib. vi. c. 10. Athenceus, lib. ix. p. 376. Columella, lib. xii. c. 4. Pelagonius, a writer, whom chronology has not fixed to any particular period of time, is often mentioned...
More DescriptionPurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: entitled Boiotica; a treatise, called Dode- catechnon; two books, ond the art of dying; some books on agriculture.?Julius Pollux', lib. vi. c. 10. Athenceus, lib. ix. p. 376. Columella, lib. xii. c. 4. Pelagonius, a writer, whom chronology has not fixed to any particular period of time, is often mentioned by Vegetius. Philosteatus, the son of Philostratus a Lemnian sophist (who was said to be the son of Verus), was a sophist, who taught first at Athens, then at Rome, under the Emperor Severus. He wrote the life of Apollonius Tyanensis, in eight books.? Suidas. Ptolemjeus of Alexandria, a philosopher, lived in the time of the Emperor Marcus.. He wrote three books, entitled Mechanaci, and several other learned works.?Suidas. The Quintilii, Gordianus, and Maximus, who were brothers, lived about the time of the Emperor Commodus, by whom they are said to have been put to death, as it is recorded by Xiphilinus, in Dio Cassius, page 819- Sotion Df arte tincluria. Sotion is said to have been a philosopher; Diogenes Laertius, lib. x. segm. 4. He wrote concerning rivers, fountains, and lakes; Photius Tmem. Clxxxix. Vossius says, he lived in the time of Tiberius; Plti- tarchi Alexand. p. 6'99- Tarentinus. There were two persons of this name, one called Archytas Taren- tinus, mentioned by Varro and Columella; the other was Heraclides Tarentinus, a medical practitioner, a disciple of Hero- philus, who is said to have been the first who used compound medicines, and who treated of the doctrine of pulses with any accuracy. Galen makes mention of him; and he seems to think him superior to Antonius Musa, who was physician to Augustus; and he takes notice of his going over to the empiric sect. He is mentioned by C. Celsus among medical practitioners, and by Epiphanius and Di...