The Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists: The Greek tradition and its many heirs

N (So ̄crate ̄s HE 4.26). Basil left a career as a rhetorician in Caesarea to become a monk; in 364 he was elected bisho ...

(Ath., Deipn. 9 [390b]) and perhaps an Aithiopika. He is cited with D, A, B, the younger S, and X ...

territory. Only one work by Be ̄rossos is known, the Babyloniaca, a history of Babylo ̄n in three books that was dedicated to Ki ...

horse tongue administered in wine) from barbari (Pliny 28.200). His identification with C M is uncertain. Fabriciu ...

BCE. Athe ̄naios (Deipn. 14 [634]) refers to the work. Bito ̄n also refers to a treatise entitled Optics, which covers the use o ...

Anicius Manlius Seuerinus Boëthius (500? – 524 CE) This Roman aristocrat, born in Rome around 480, senator, consul (510), prime ...

Action, Passion, not treated in detail in Aristotle, and retained in the Categories the final chapters (10–15), the so-called Po ...

The Souda’s two entries for Bo ̄los, one labeled “D [perhaps De ̄mokritean] philosopher” (B-481), and the other “Mende ...

of Babylonian cuneiform traditions in Mandaic sources and Müller-Kessler has argued convincingly for a Sasanian context for this ...

Boupha(n)tos (120 BCE – 565 CE) A  T (2.577 Puschm.) quotes his remedy for gout, composed of anise, silphion, g ...

about a circle, and the taking of some intermediate polygon. Apparently Bruso ̄n relied on some general principle of continuity ...

C C- ⇒ K- C ⇒ (1) B; (2) L Caecilius “Medicus” (100 BCE – 77 CE) Listed by P after S N and be ...

accurate transcription, excepting the use of 16th c. orthography (Bendz, v. 1, pp. 12–14; Drabkin, p. ). All subsequent edite ...

C ⇒ C. I C Caesarius of Nazianzos (Kappadokia) (ca 355 – 368 CE) Born ca 330, younger brother of G  N ...

39e–53c respectively), focused on cosmology. The first part, describing the creation and elemental structure of the universe’s b ...

C ⇒ M C ⇒ (1) A  T; (2) L Campestris (or Campester) (100 BCE – 400 CE) Wrote a lost wo ...

in his two-part plan dealing with cosmography to start with and then with the planets, sec- ondly in the semi-heliocentric syste ...

work quoted by M). Still disputed is the poem’s authorship and the date: in addition to Priscian, Remmius Palaemon or D ...

P.Harris 46). According to Celsus, he also cured a case of intoxication (pr.69); an antidote by him is described by G CMLoc ...

91 – 122; G. Sabbah, “Observations préliminaires à une nouvelle edition de Cassius Felix,” in Mazzini and Fusco (1985) 279–312; ...