Heliodorus

Heliodorus in Wikipedia

Heliodorus is a Greek name meaning "Gift of the Sun". People Several persons named Heliodorus are known to us from ancient times, the best known of which are: * Heliodorus a minister of Seleucus IV Philopator ca. 175 BC * Heliodorus, a Greek ambassador who erected famous votive Heliodorus pillar near Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh, India * Heliodorus...

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Heliodōrus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

1. A Greek poet, from whom sixteen hexameters are cited by Stobaeus (Serm. 98), containing a description of that part of Campania situated between the Lucrine Lake and Puteoli, and where Cicero had a country residence. Some suppose him to have been the same with the rhetorician Heliodorus mentioned by Horace ( Sat. i. 5.2), as one of the companions...

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