G, H, H E, H T, P,
and Q. The school ended ca 200 CE (cf. M B); BNP 4
(2004) 953–954, V. Nutton.
Entries on Empiricists (most by Stok): A P, A, A
A S, A K, A, C (M.),
C, D A, E P, G, H-
T, K, L M, L N,
M N, P K, P ( P?),
P K, S A, S A,
T, T, Z, Z A.
See also: A, A P, -G I,
H ( T), H S, L A,
T, Z (H.).
ephemeris (pl. ephemerides) astronomical table(s) listing calculated positions of the
Moon and planets in a calendrical framework.
B A, C T, I “L,” K, K,
N, T V N.
Epicurean follower of the teachings of E and member of his school, the
Garden; members of the school retained his theory of atomism, as well as his
insistence on alternate explanations, all equally tenable so long as none divine. The
school is hardly attested after ca 200 CE. By that era they had long since acquired an
undeserved reputation as hedonists; therefore, and because the standard model of
late antiquity was compounded from Peripatetic, Platonist, and Stoic elements,
Epicurean works were lost in greater proportion.
Entries on Epicureans (most by Englert): A A, A,
B, D L, D O, D
T, E, H, I, K, L, M-
L, P, P L, P,
P, P B, T, Z S.
See also: A A S, A M, G,
H R, H A, H
A, K, L K, M, P. B. 9782,
P, R, T T, V, Z.
epicycle a uniform circular motion, the center of which is carried uniformly in a circular
path around the observer: A P; H; and P.
See also: A A, A ̄
, D, O K,
P. M. 3.149, P.
Erasistrateans medical school founded by E, still in existence at the time
of G, but apparently moribund thereafter. The members of the school continued
to deny the worth of phlebotomy, and to promote Erasistratos’ theories of anatomy and
physiology.
Entries on Erasistrateans: A, A M, A
S, A S, A, E, H
E, H S, H S, K (?),
K K (II), K K (?), M/M,
M, M (?), M (?), P (E.), S
(E.).
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