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Headword:
*dioskori/dhs
Adler number: delta,1206
Translated headword: Dioskorides, Dioscorides
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Of
Anazarbos;[1] a doctor, nicknamed Moley because of the moles on his eyes.[2] He associated with
Cleopatra during Antony's time.[3] And written by him are 24 books, famous medical works all.[4]
*dioskori/dhs, *)anazarbeu/s, i)atro/s, o( e)piklhqei\s *faka=s dia\ tou\s e)pi\ th=s o)/yews fakou/s. sunh=n de\ *kleopa/tra| e)pi\ *)antwni/ou. kai\ ge/graptai au)tw=| bibli/a kd#, ta\ pa/nta i)atrika\ peribo/hta.
Notes:
C1 CE. See generally OCD(4) s.v. '
Dioscorides(2)(Pedianus
Dioscorides)'.
[1] In inland
Cilicia; Barrington Atlas map 67 grid B2;
alpha 1866. For it, and him, see
Stephanus of
Byzantium s.v.
[2] Again under
phi 23.
[3] The 30s BCE -- but see above.
[4] Principally the five-volume
De materia medica, on the plants and drugs involved in medicine.
Lily Y. Beck, Dioscorides. De Materia Medica (Hildesheim 2005); reviewed in BMCR 2006.07.48
Keywords: biography; botany; chronology; geography; medicine; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 12 May 2003@08:36:15.
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