physiologia

At the beginning of Book Four Eriugena labels his enterprise a physiologia, a ˜study of nature™, and indeed one manuscript of the Periphyseon in the British Library in London calls the whole dialogue

John Scottus Eriugena Moran, Dermot 2004

Furthermore philosophy treats of physics (in Greek [Greek: physiologia]) where a more careful knowledge is required because the problems which come under this head are numerous and of very different kinds; as, for example, in the case of the conducting of water.

The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio

In the first passage it is said: [Greek: hê goun kata ton tês alêtheias kanona gnôstikês paradoseôs physiologia, mallon de epopteia, ek tou peri kosmogonias êrtêtai logou, enthende anabainousa epi to theologikon eidos].

History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890

“Philia e physiologia: I fondamenti dell'amicizia epicurea,” Materiali e Discussioni per l'Analisi dei Testi Classici, 1: 49 “ 63.

Epicurus Konstan, David 2009