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                    <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><text xml:base="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><body xml:lang="eng" n="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><div type="textpart" subtype="alphabetic_letter" n="A"><div type="textpart" subtype="entry" xml:id="apollonius-bio-27" n="apollonius_27"><head><persName xml:lang="la"><surname full="yes">Apollonius</surname></persName></head><p>20. Of <hi rend="smallcaps">MYNDUS</hi>, lived at the time of Alexander the Great, and was
      particularly skilled in explaining nativities. He professed to have learned his art from the
      Chaldeans. (Senec. <hi rend="ital">Quaest. Nat.</hi> 7.3 and 17.) His statements respecting
      the <pb n="240"/> comets, which Seneca has proserved, are sufficient to shew that his works
      were of great importance for astronomy. Whether he is the same as Apollonius, a grammarian of
      Myndns, who is mentioned by Stephanus Byzantius (s. <hi rend="ital">v.</hi>
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