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

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Glossary These Greek terms were in some cases used over many centuries, and their meanings shifted; we give here a basic definit ...

See also: A  A, A, A  A, A, A  T, P-A, A ...

6.1.28 (11.824 K.); Usher 1974: 126; Durling 1993: 36. (Closely related to Carum carvi L., caraway: Usher 1974: 126; Stuart 1979 ...

See also: A P, A, A O-T, K, P, P, S  S, T. aphronit ...

daimo ̄n, -ones initially God or the divine, but later being(s) intermediate between the gods and humans (H Erga 122 – 126 ...

 B, M, O ̄, P, P (M.), P-  (E.), S  R-
, S (M. ...

G, H, H  E, H  T, P, and Q. The school ended ca 200 CE (cf. M ...

erusipelas “red-skin”, a condition involving rough red skin, often described or pre- scribed for, and perhaps sometimes the same ...

See also: H (M.), P, S  B. glauko ̄ma eye-disease characterized by a bluish-grey opacity in the ...

D, MM 3.38, 41; G, Simpl. 6.5.20 (11.877 K.); Usher 1974: 576; André 1985: 122. See also: E  C ...

W, E, G, R), K, I  H (S), M  B, M  A ...

katarkhic astrology offered judgment about auspicious and inauspicious times for various activities, and about the outcomes of a ...

H, I (P.), K (P.), K, K, M , M  A, M, M ...

malabathron or malobat(h)rum iden- tified as either Cinnamomum tamala Nees., or C. iners Blume, or C. zeylanicum Blume, or other ...

from A  B (some practitioners do show a tendency to atom- ism). They taught that a diseased body exhibited ...

oikoumene ̄ the whole known inhabited portion of the Earth’s sphere (or sometimes just the known portion of the inhabited world) ...

 B, M, N  D, P, P M, S. parape ̄gma astronomical calendar of fixed-sta ...

A  S, A (G.), A  M, A, A, A, A, A  ...

A, A. OCD3 1202 – 1203, J.T. Vallance; NP 9 (2000) 1183–1184, V. Nutton. Entries on Pneumaticists (most by Touw ...