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

emperor’s deeds (Sen. ibid.). Timagene ̄s then moved to live with the Roman historian C. Asinius Pollio. Later he traveled a bit ...

Timaios of Lokris, pseudo (100 BCE – 100 CE) The Timaios of P’s eponymous dialogue has been credited with an apocryphal trac ...

Predecessors (1987); R. Vattuone, “Timeo di Tauromenio,” in R. Vattuone, ed., Storici greci d’Occidente (2002) 177–232. Daniela ...

return to a fixed star). The observation of the Moon’s overtaking η Vir concerns a conjunc- tion, not an occultation. But, again ...

Timo ̄n declines to posit anything about the real nature of things, while accepting their appearances for practical purposes. Mo ...

work offered seemingly complete monographs on animals, mixing anatomical and etho- logical remarks with various mythological, le ...

directions for sowing seed (2.8.5, 2.10.8), and observed that the soil of freshly-cleared forest- land rapidly declines in ferti ...

Trupho ̄n of Gortun (ca 15 BCE – 20 CE) One of S L’ colleagues, acknowledged as mentor or teacher (praeceptor: Com ...

F.C. Conybeare, “Ananias of Shirak (A.D. 600–c.650),” Byzantinische Zeitschrift 6 (1897) 572–574; A. Abrahamyan, Anania Sˇirakac ...

Ed.: Cicero’s works are conveniently available in the Loeb Classical Library series, although better Latin texts are available i ...

whom V dedicated the second book of his Res Rusticae (pr.6). The author may have introduced the variety of pear known as Tur ...

U Ulpianus (ca 475 – 500 CE) Brother of the late Neo-Platonist Isido ̄ros of Alexandria (Souda O-914 [Oulpianos], deriv- ing par ...

V V ⇒ (1) M. T V; (2) V V V ⇒ C V M. Valerius Messalla Potitus (45 – 15 B ...

unfinished treatise was dedicated to Augustus and prefaced with a prayer that the emperor heal all human evils (25.4–5). GRL § 2 ...

report the author as Publii; those of the Epitoma have Flauii. Reeve 2004:  suggests the imperial service of Publius entitled ...

of the Idylls of Theokritos and other pastoral poems, which he released as a collection, entitled the Bucolics, in 37. Entering ...

an account of climate zones), B  M (for the bugonia), L (for methods of inference), and V (for much of ...

T.F. Royds, The Beasts, Birds and Bees of Virgil (1918); J.J. Sargeaunt, The Trees, Shrubs and Plants of Virgil (1920); D. Compa ...

C. Vibius Rufinus of Tusculum (45 – 65 CE) Latin authority on trees, plants, and flowers (P 1.ind.14–15, 19, 21). Vibius Ruf ...

process of multiplication and division. MSS contain numerous multiplication and division charts, and tables of standard weights ...