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Censorinus
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...part, which is based on the Roman savant Varro, deals chiefly with human procreation...part, which is based on a lost work by Varro, Censorinus treats the different divisions...Roman metrics and may be based on a work by Varro. Thus De die natali and Fragmentum Censorini...
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Martianus Capella
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...disappearance in the early Middle Ages of Varro ’ s book on the mathematical...x2019; quadrivium books, inspired by Varro ’ s archetypal work, provide...traditions, transmitted to the Latin world by Varro, were fairly well preserved in digest...
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Encyclopedism
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...denoting a circle of learning. Works such as Marcus Terentius Varro's Disciplines (c. 50 b.c.e., now lost) defined this...trivium and quadrivium of the medieval university curriculum. Varro also included medicine and architecture. However, the circle...
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Superstition
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...Judaism and Christianity. Superstition was the opposite of religion, the decorous and pious worship of the gods. The antiquary Varro distinguished between the superstitious man, who feared the gods as his enemies, and the religious man, who was devoted to...
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Ibn Al-‘Awwām Abū Zakariyyā Yaḥyā Ibn Muḥammad
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...the term l ī . Among the classical writers he mentions Democritus, the Pseudo Aristotle. Theophrastus, Vergil, Varro, and especially Columella (the format of the Kitab at-filaha is similar to that of the De re rustica ). The Oriental Arabs...
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Cannae, Battle of
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
...in a shallow crescent formation. The densely-packed Roman legionaries, under the consuls Aemilius Paullus and Terentius Varro, charged Hannibal's centre, forced it back, but failed to break it. As it slowly and deliberately gave ground, and the...
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God
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
...17th century, contrasting rural and urban life; a similar idea is found in De Re Rustica by the Roman scholar and satirist Varro (116–27 bc), ‘divine nature gave us the fields, human art built the cities.’ God makes...
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Celsus, Aulus Cornelius
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...member of Rome ’ s leading circles. He compiled an encyclopedia entitled Artes and ranks, along with his predecessor Varro, as Rome ’ s most important master of this literary form. Columella, Quintilian, and Pliny the Elder, all of...
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Dicaearchus of Messina
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...extending history, on Peripatetic principles, over fields other than the political and military. It was the model for a work by Varro on the Romans. Dicaearchus ’ only work on natural science was a geography, Tour of the Earth , following the work...
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Isidore of Seville
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...Ovid, Palladius, Placidus, Pliny, the Younger, Pseudo- Clement, Sallust, Seneca, Solinus, Suetonius, Tertullian, Varro, Vergil, Verrius, Flaccus, Victorinus, and doubtless other writers at first or second hand. Isidore ’ s universe...
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