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PETRA (Ancient city) JORDAN
Gessius, (Gessios), an eminent physician, called by Stephanus Byzantinus (s. v.
Gea) ho periphanestatos iatrosophistes, was a native of Gea, a place near Petra,
in Arabia, and lived in the reign of the emperor Zenon, A. D. 474-491. He was
a pupil of Domnus, whose reputation he eclipsed, and whose scholars he enticed
from him by his superior skill. He was an ambitious man, and acquired both riches
and honours; but his reputation as a philosopher, though he wished to be considered
such, was not very great. (Damascius ap. Suid s. v. Gesios, and Phot. Cod. 242.,
ed. Bekker.) He may perhaps be the physician mentioned by one of the scholiasts
on Hippocrates. (Dietz, Schol. in Hippocr. et Gal. vol. ii. ) The little medical
work that bears the name of Cassius Iatrosophista has been by some persons attributed
to (Gesius, but without sufficient reason. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. xiii., ed.
Vet.)
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Nov 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Epiphanius, of Petra, son of Ulpianus, was a sophist or rhetorician of considerable reputation. He taught rhetoric at Petra and at Athens. He lived also at Laodiceia in Syria, where he was very intimate with the two Apollinarii, father and son, of whom the latter afterwards became the founder of the sect of the Apollinaristae. The Apollinarii were excommunicated by the bishop of Laodiceia on account of their intimacy with Epiphanius, who, it was feared would convert them to the religion of the Greeks; from which it appears that Epiphanius was a heathen. While he was at Athens, Libanius, then a young man, came thither, but did not apply for instruction to Epiphanius, then in the height of his reputation, though they were both from Syria ; neither is this Epiphanius the person to whom Libanius wrote. (Libanius, Epist. 831.) Epiphanius did not live to be very old; and both he and his wife, who was eminent for her beauty, died of the same disease, an affection of the blood. He wrote many works, which are enumerated by Suidas. They are as follows: 1. Peri koinonias kai diaphoras ton staseon. 2. Progumnasmata. 3. Meletai. 4. Demarchoi. 5. Polemarchikos. 6. Logoi Epideiktikoi : and, 7. Miscellanies. Socrates mentions a hymn to Bacchus, recited by him, attendance on which recitation was the immediate occasion of the excommunication of the Apollinarii. (Socrates, Hist. Eccl. ii. 46; Sozomen, Hist. Eccl. v. 25; Eunapius, Sophist. Vitae (Epiphanius and Libanius); Eudocia, Ionia, in the Anecdote Graeca of Villoison, vol. i.; Suidas, s. v. Epiphanios; the passages in Suidas and Eudocia are the same.)
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Oct 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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