theophrastus in English

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( circa 370– circa 287 bc ) , Greek philosopher and scientist, the student and successor of Aristotle. The most influential of his works was Characters , a collection of sketches of psychological types.

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1. Theophrastus, statue in the Botanic Garden, Palermo, Italy

2. M. officinalis may be the "honey-leaf" (μελισσόφυλλον) mentioned by Theophrastus.

3. Other ancient authors and physicians—including Apollodorus, Dioscorides, Theophrastus, and Hippocrates—mentioned mastic’s medical uses.

4. The interests of Theophrastus were wide ranging, extending from biology and physics to ethics and metaphysics.

5. The Ancient Greek book The Characters of Theophrastus devotes a chapter to "The Boastful Man".

6. The island where Theophrastus was born produced Agates several hundred years before Agates sourced from Sicily

7. Lucian, a Roman-Syrian rhetorician and satirist, lists the philosophers Aristotle, Theophrastus and Xenocrates among his teachers.

8. Esculapio Pedanius Dioscorides , a Greek botanist of the 1st century ce , was the most important Botanical writer after Theophrastus.

9. Birthwort is one of the old healing plants already in use by the ancient Egyptians and later by Hippocrates, Theophrastus, Dioscorides and Pliny

10. Theophrastus et fere Graeci princepsque Pythagoras caulem eius Cubitalem et saepe duum cubitorum, foliis porri silvestris, anthericum vocavere, radicem vero, id est bulbos, asphodelum

11. Theophrastus et fere Graeci princepsque Pythagors caulem eius Cubitalem et saepe duum cubitorum, foliis porri silvestris, anthericum vocavere, radicem vero, id est bulbos, asphodelum

12. In the fourth century BC, Theophrastus names purslane, andrákhne (ἀνδράχνη), as one of the several summer pot herbs that must be sown in April (Enquiry into Plants 7.1.2).

13. An early study of the type was made by the ancient Greek philosopher Theophrastus in his typology, Characters, "In the proffered services of the Busybody there is much of the affectation of kind-heartedness, and little efficient aid."

14. Abutilon theophrasti (velvetleaf, velvet plant, velvetweed, Chinese jute, China jute, crown weed, buttonweed, lantern mallow, butterprint, pie-marker, or Indian mallow) is an annual plant in the family Malvaceae, native to southern Asia.Its specific epithet theophrasti commemorates the ancient Greek botanist-philosopher Theophrastus

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