Apuleius of Madaura · c. 158–161 CE (composed after the Oea trial; includes the Apologia and related Florida orations, with the Florida pieces composed across the 160s)
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seaweed for an ague. Here again there is an untranslatable jest.
Alga (seaweed) suggests algere, 'to be cold,' one of the symptoms of the ague (querceram).
Aristotle.
Eudemus of Rhodes, also a disciple of Aristotle.
Lycon of Troas, a distinguished Peripatetic philosopher (floruit circa 272 B.C.).
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