Apollonius in a sentence

The other side is represented by another of my readers, Apollonius, who is of the view that most of the rhetoric directed against Igbo people in Lagos is borne out of envy.

Apion's claim probably repeats ideas already in circulation as similar claims are made by Posidonius and Apollonius Molon in the 1st century BC.

Apollonius demonstrated that these two models were in fact mathematically equivalent.

Apollonius implored him, stating, "Aurelian, if you desire to rule, abstain from the blood of the innocent!

Apollonius of Perga discovered the curious result that the ratio of volumes of these two shapes is the same as the ratio of their surface areas. citation.

Apollonius of Rhodes calls the lower Danube the Keras Okeanoio (Gulf or Horn of Oceanus) in Argonautica (IV. 282).

Apollonius says that Medea only helped Jason in the first place because Hera had convinced Aphrodite or Eros to cause Medea to fall in love with him.

Birley, Marcus Aurelius, 69. He disdained philosophy and philosophers, and looked down on Marcus' sessions with Apollonius of Chalcedon and others in this circle.

Birley, Marcus Aurelius, 94, 105. Apollonius may have introduced Marcus to Stoic philosophy, but Quintus Junius Rusticus would have the strongest influence on the boy.

But Apollonius, since the priests would tell him nothing, remarked: 'Heracles of Egypt does not permit me not to tell all I know.

Documents of the late 3rd and early 2nd centuries BC show, perhaps partly by the accident of survival (there is nothing analogous to the Apollonius letters, a loss of breadth and spaciousness.

Eutocius's commentary on Apollonius's Conics was dedicated to Anthemius.sfn The Hagia Sophia in cross section.

Hesiod, according to a scholium on Apollonius of Rhodes.

However it should be noted that there is nothing whatever in Apollonius's account that suggests that Hylas was a sexual lover as opposed to a companion and servant.

It is likely that the first four books of Apollonius's work come directly from Euclid.

Perhaps trying to reconcile these conflicting accounts, Apollonius of Rhodes says that Crataeis was another name for Hecate, and that she and Phorcys were the parents of Scylla.

The first-century sage Apollonius of Tyana is said to have observed, "there are many other mountains all over the earth that are on fire, and yet we should never be done with it if we assigned to them giants and gods like Hephaestus".

Within about five years he became Chief Librarian, a position that the poet Apollonius Rhodius had previously held.