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The meeting is recorded by Michael Psellus, in his Chronographia:
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Meanwhile secretary Psellus turns for salvation to another secret weapon - a woman.
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Meanwhile secretary Psellus turns for salvation to another secret weapon - a woman.
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Jamblichus, Psellus, Plutarch, and most Platonists acknowledge bad, et ab eorum maleficiis cavendum, and we should beware of their wickedness, for they are enemies of mankind, and this Plato learned in Egypt, that they quarrelled with Jupiter, and were driven by him down to hell.
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Of the same mind is Psellus and Rhasis the Arab. lib.
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Psellus [1125], a Christian, and sometimes tutor (saith Cuspinian) to Michael Parapinatius,
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That they can be seen when and in what shape, and to whom they will, saith Psellus, Tametsi nil tale viderim, nec optem videre, though he himself never saw them nor desired it; and use sometimes carnal copulation (as elsewhere I shall [1133] prove more at large) with women and men.
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Michael made the great scholar Michael Psellus his chief adviser and devoted himself to the pursuit of learning.
1060 2001
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In the 11th century there appeared the greatest of the Byzantine scholars, Psellus, reviver of the Platonic philosophy and universal genius.
976 2001
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Psellus founded a system of demonology, which had for its basis the natural history and habitation of demons.
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