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Dioscorides

Greek scholar and friend of Olympus.

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First appearance: iii of the life of him who was named the learned olympus in the tomb of the harpers that is by t p of his counsel to cleopatra of the message of charmion and of the passing of olympus down to alexandria

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In Of the Coming of Charmion; and of the Wrath of Sepa: Mentioned as the former astrologer dismissed by Cleopatra after a failed prophecy,…

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See Dioscorides in iii of the life of him who was named the learned olympus in the tomb of the harpers that is by t p of his counsel to cleopatra of the message of charmion and of the passing of olympus down to alexandria
See Dioscorides in iii of the life of him who was named the learned olympus in the tomb of the harpers that is by t p of his counsel to cleopatra of the message of charmion and of the passing of olympus down to alexandria