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Page 83
... Suidas , under the emperor Theodo- sius the Great , from the year 379 to 395 , and acquired deserved fame as a consummate mathematician , Many of his works are lost , or at least have not yet been discovered . Suidas and Vossius mention ...
... Suidas , under the emperor Theodo- sius the Great , from the year 379 to 395 , and acquired deserved fame as a consummate mathematician , Many of his works are lost , or at least have not yet been discovered . Suidas and Vossius mention ...
Page 212
... Suidas mentions two of this name : one of Laconia , who wrote concerning the Hellespont , Laconia , the Amphyc- tions , & c .; another , who was a sophist or rhetorician of Cæsarea in Cappadocia , lived at the same time with Aris- tides ...
... Suidas mentions two of this name : one of Laconia , who wrote concerning the Hellespont , Laconia , the Amphyc- tions , & c .; another , who was a sophist or rhetorician of Cæsarea in Cappadocia , lived at the same time with Aris- tides ...
Page 233
... Suidas are in the library of Trinity college , Cambridge , and were used by Kuster in his edition . 4to . Our prelate was reckoned an excellent preacher , very judicious and learned , particularly accurate and exact in chronology , and ...
... Suidas are in the library of Trinity college , Cambridge , and were used by Kuster in his edition . 4to . Our prelate was reckoned an excellent preacher , very judicious and learned , particularly accurate and exact in chronology , and ...
Page 439
... Suidas and others , of which Favorinus probably consulted very ancient manuscripts . The best edition is that of Bartoli , Venice , 1712 , folio . ' PHERECRATES , a celebrated Greek comic poet , con- temporary with Plato and ...
... Suidas and others , of which Favorinus probably consulted very ancient manuscripts . The best edition is that of Bartoli , Venice , 1712 , folio . ' PHERECRATES , a celebrated Greek comic poet , con- temporary with Plato and ...
Page 443
... Suidas , a Syracusan by birth ; but Strabo says that he was born at Solæ , in Cilicia . He was some years older than Menander , and in the opinion of Quintilian fairly next to him in merit , though unfit to be preferred to him ...
... Suidas , a Syracusan by birth ; but Strabo says that he was born at Solæ , in Cilicia . He was some years older than Menander , and in the opinion of Quintilian fairly next to him in merit , though unfit to be preferred to him ...
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