Diodorus

B. C.), Vitruvius, a Roman architect of the first century B. C., Dioscorides Pedanus, a Greek physician of the first century A. D., and the Elder Pliny, also of the first century A. D. Some brief allusions are contained also in the writings of Plato (died 347 B. C.), Aristotle (384-322 B. C.), Diodorus Siculus (about the first century B. C.), and Strabo, the geographer, though Dioscorides and Pliny have incorporated in their later writings the important facts of these writers. 

Diodorus Siculus, The Historical Library, Translation of G. Booth, London, 1814, I, p. 157. 

The deposit made by the separation of dissolved carbonate of calcium from hard Avaters is thus interpreted by Pliny as an actual change of the Avater to the stone, a point of view entirely consistent Avith the theories of matter existent at the time. Thus Diodorus Siculus74 says of crystal (quartz), It is said that it is produced of the purest Avater congealed and hardened not by cold but by the power of the sun, so that it continues forever, and receives many shapes and colors, according as the spirits are exhaled. ... 

As for instance by Diodorus Siculus, first century B. C., and Pliny tbe Elder. 

For instazice, Diodorus of Sicily, Gz-eek historian of the first century B.C. in describing the customs of the Egyp-... 

Siculus, Diodorus. The Library of History, ed. and trans. C. H. Oldfather (Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press, 1939). 

The mines of Spain were perhaps the most important sources of the precious metal, particularly those of Andalusia, probably the Tarshish of Ezekiel xxvii. 12, the Turdetania of Strabo and part of the Iberia of Diodorus. Strabo waxes eloquent on the mineral wealth of Turdetania and states that the gold mines were the property of the State whilst the silver mines were privately owned... 

Diodorus was bom at Argyrium in Sicily. The quotation is from "Diodorus of Sicily" by Oldfather (Heinemann, 1933 +). Book 5, Chapters 36 to 38. Rickard. Journal of Roman Studies, 1928, 18, 129. f Pliny. Opus cit., Book 33, Chapters 24, 17 and 49. j Pliny, Opus cit., Book 33, Chapter 23 Book 34, Chapter 48. 

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Another two columns, those of Osiris and Isis at Nysa in Arabia, were famous in antiquity. Diodorus Siculus recorded in 45BCE that the left column recorded Osiris strength " ... 

The scholarly Essenes had Academies at Engedi, Callirrhoe Modem. The Essenes were pacifists in the same as way as the Edomites. Diodorus Siculus says of the Edomites ... 

There is an opinion that the Danaioi formed a peculiar military class amongst the Mycenaean Greeks. Diodorus Siculus wrote ... 

In 60BCE, at the beginning of the Roman conquest of Britain, Diodorus Siculus confirmed that the Britains and the Trojans had common customs ... 

The Druidic tradition holds that Britain was Alba, Albania or the land of Albion. Albion was the tribe leader who led this fourth millennium BCE migration from the Aegean to Britain. Upon their arrival, the White Land of Albion became a special country of Apollo. Diodorus Siculus wrote that the White Goddess, Leto, was bom in the White Land where there is a grand shrine dedicated to her son Apollo... 

Diodorus continued that britains inhabitants are in a sense Apollo s priests, an idea taken-up by Sir Francis Bacon s Novum Organum. 

The color of emerald green holds a great fascination. The colour is a kind of optical balm. " ° Pliny said no colour has a more pleasing appearance If the Emerald tablet really existed, it was probably rock crystal dyed emerald with copper sulphates. Diodorus noted that rock crystal could be baptized in divine fire to create a smaragdos, an artificial emerald. " ... 

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