Adamantius

Adamantius (ca. fourth century C.E.)

Adamantius (ca. fourth century C.E.)

A Jewish doctor, who became a Catholic at Constantinople in the time of Constantine, to whom he dedicated his two volumes on Physiognomy; or, The Art of Judging People by Their Faces. This work, full of contradictions and fantasies, was printed in the Scriptores Physiognomoniae veteres of Johann G. F. Franz at Attembourg in 1780.

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Adamantius

Adamantius. The name of the orthodox protagonist in the 4th-cent. dialogue De recta in Deum fidei, and commonly supposed to be its author. It is a disputation first with two disciples of Marcion and then with followers of Bardesanes and Valentinus.

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