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Headword:
Pappos
Adler number: pi,265
Translated headword: Pappos, Pappus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Alexandrian, philosopher, born in the time of the elder emperor
Theodosius,[1] when the philosopher
Theon also flourished, the one who wrote about
Ptolemy’s
Canon.[2] His books [are]
Description of the Inhabited World;
Commentary on the 4 Books of the Great Syntaxis of Ptolemy;
The Rivers in Libya;
Dream-Interpretations.[3]
Pappos, Alexandreus, philosophos, gegonôs kata ton presbuteron Theodosion ton basilea, hote kai Theôn ho philosophos êkmazen, ho grapsas eis ton Ptolemaiou Kanona. biblia de autou Chôrographia oikoumenikê, Eis ta d# biblia tês Ptolemaiou megalês suntaxeôs hupomnêma, Potamous tous en Libuêi, Oneirokritika.
Notes:
[1]
Theodosius I, born AD c.346, reigned 379–395 (see
theta 144). Pappos may in fact have been older: he flourished c.320 according to OCD4 s.v.
[2] cf.
theta 205.
[3] Parts of these survive, though the
Description of the Inhabited World is lost.
Translated by: D. Graham J. Shipley on 14 July 2002@08:37:20.
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