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Headword:
Bôlos
Adler number: beta,482
Translated headword: BĂ´los, Bolus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Of
Mendes, a Pythagorean. [He wrote]
Concerning the accounts which have come down to our attention from readings,
Concerning marvels,
Potent Remedies -- it is with regard to sympathies and antipathies of stones in alphabetical order;
Concerning the signs of the sun and the moon and the bear and lamp and the [lunar] rainbow.
Greek Original:Bôlos, Mendêsios, Puthagoreios. Peri tôn ek tês anagnôseôs tôn historiôn eis epistasin hêmas agontôn, Peri thaumasiôn, Phusika dunamera: echei de peri sumpatheiôn kai antipatheiôn lithôn kata stoicheion: Peri sêmeiôn tôn ex hêliou kai selênês kai arktou kai luchnou kai iridos.
Note:
From
Mendes in Egypt, he lived during the third century BCE and wrote on magic and pharmacology. He is now thought to be the same person as Bolus the Democritean (
beta 481): see OCD(4) p.239.
Keywords: biography; geography; medicine; philosophy; science and technology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 11 June 2002@00:16:01.
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