DIOPHANTUS

DIOPHANTUS
I.
DIOPHANTUS
Archon Athenis, Olymp. 96. An. 2.
II.
DIOPHANTUS
Atheniensis, mercenariorum Nectanebo, Aegypti Rege militantium e Graecia, Dux, Diod. l. 16.
III.
DIOPHANTUS
Lacedaemonius, condidit libros Antiquitatum 14. teste Fulgentio Mithol. l. 1. Agatharchides de Rubro mari c. 31. auctor est, descripsisse eum terras Septentrioni subiectas; Ast alius est Diophantus Syracusan. Philosoph. Pythagoric. cuius de mundi ortu sententiam adfert Theodoret. Therapeut. l. 4. qui est de Materia et Mundo, Voss. de Hist. Gr. l. 3. Alius est etiam Diophantus Alexandrin. qui de Arithmetica scripsit, libros 13. Algebrae inventor. Horum, qui in Bibl. Vatic. Xylander 6. Latine vertit, et notis illustravit. A Ioh. Patr. Hier. Pythagorae comparatur, in vita Ioh. Damasceni. Sub Antonino eum vixisse, Raph. Bombel. et P. Billius in praef. Algebrae, rentur. Vide Blancan. Chronol. Math. XI. sec. 2. I. C. p. 51. Regiomont. praef. in Alg. Voss. de Scient. Mathemat. c. 10. §. 3. p. 37. et add. p. 432. Nic. Lloydius.
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DIOPHANTUS
Mitylenaeus, Orator. Gr. circa 156. Olymp. disertissimus sui temporis habitus. Praeceptor Tiberii Gracchi, Cic. in Bruto, memoratus.

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