Published 2021-06-21
Keywords
- Heron Alexandrinus,
- Theodore of Mopsuestia,
- Herophilos stoicus,
- stoic lexicography,
- philosophical and mathematical definitions
Abstract
One of the few citations from classical texts by Theodore of Mopsuestia, which derives from a stoic lexicographer (perhaps Herophilos, an author cited by Origenes), is proved to have been inserted in a Byzantine Collection of geometric definitions (edited by Heiberg) to explain the term ἀρχή.