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Headword:
Nikandros
Adler number: nu,374
Translated headword: Nicander, Nikander, Nikandros
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Son of
Xenophanes; of Colophon (according to some, of Aetolia); simultaneously grammarian and poet and doctor; lived in the reign of the young
Attalus, i.e. the last, the victor over the Gauls, who was overthrown by the Romans.[1] He wrote
Theriaca,
Alexipharmaca,
Georgica, 5 books of
Transformations,
Collection of Cures,
Prognostics, in epic verse -- metaphrased from
Hippocrates'
Prognostics, three books
On All Oracles, and very many other works in epic verse.
Nikandros, Xenophanous, Kolophônios, kata de tinas Aitôlos: hama grammatikos te kai poiêtês kai iatros, gegonôs kata ton neon Attalon, êgoun ton teleutaion ton Galatonikên, hon Rhômaioi katelusan. egrapse Thêriaka, Alexipharmaka, Geôrgika, Heteroioumenôn biblia e#, Iaseôn sunagôgên, Prognôstika di' epôn: metapephrastai de ek tôn Hippokratous Prognôstikôn: Peri chrêstêriôn pantôn biblia tria: kai alla pleista epikôs.
Notes:
Keywords: agriculture; biography; chronology; epic; geography; medicine; military affairs; meter and music; poetry; religion; zoology
Translated by: Malcolm Heath on 20 June 2003@01:47:55.
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