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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 (ca. fourth century C.E.)." Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Adamantius (ca. fourth century C.E.)." Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3403800045.html "Adamantius (ca. fourth century C.E.)." Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology. 2001. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3403800045.html |
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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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E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Adamantius." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Adamantius." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-Adamantius.html E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Adamantius." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-Adamantius.html |
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