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  • Mathematicians such as Theodorus of Cyrene (who is included in Iamblichus 'catalogue) and Hippocrates of Chios (who is not) are not treated as Pythagoreans in the early sources such as Plato,

    Pythagoreanism Huffman, Carl 2006

  • It is to be remembered that in a compound we do not think of the parts as having a significance also by themselves; in the name 'Theodorus', for instance, the _doron_ means nothing to us.

    Poetics. English 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle 1911

  • So let the spectators be assembled, and let them choose between Helladius and Theodorus which is fittest to be Pantomimist of the Greens, whose salary we will pay. '

    The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator Senator Cassiodorus 1872

  • St. Chrysostom begins his second Exhortation to Theodorus, which is much shorter than the first, by expressing his grief as follows: (t. 1, p. 35:) "If tears and groans could have been conveyed by letters, this would have been filled.

    The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler

  • The text is a dialogue between Socrates and the mathematician Theodorus, another student named Socrates (referred to as Young Socrates), and an unknown philosopher expounding the ideas of the statesman.

    Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009

  • A third, and closely allied, kind of defect in matters of passion is that which Theodorus used to call parenthyrsus.

    On the Sublime Hal Duncan 2010

  • A third, and closely allied, kind of defect in matters of passion is that which Theodorus used to call parenthyrsus.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Hal Duncan 2010

  • The text is a dialogue between Socrates and the mathematician Theodorus, another student named Socrates (referred to as Young Socrates), and an unknown philosopher expounding the ideas of the statesman.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009

  • It may derive from Theodorus (Greek for "gift of god") or from the Aramaic word for "heart" [1].

    Name My Dog 2008

  • Just one of Hendrik's four van der Merwe grandsons married, however, and it does not appear that he had children. 17 One of those grandsons, Theodorus, was the son of Hendrik's daughter, Aletta Sibella.

    Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

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  • You stink, Theo.

    December 4, 2009