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Doro'theus

7. Of SIDON.

Works
Astrological Poems (ἀποτελέσματα)

He was the author of astrological poems (ἀποτελέσματα), of which a few fragments are still extant.

Editions

The extant fragments are collected in Iriarte's Catalog. Cod. MSS. Biblioth. Mal. i. p. 224, and in Cramer's Anecdota, iii. pp. 167, 185.

Manilius, among the Romans, and several Arab writers on astrology, have made considerable use of these Apotelesmata.

Dorotheus of Sidon identical with Dorotheus the Chaldaean?

Some critics are inclined to consider Dorotheus of Sidon as identical with the Chaldaean.