Proteas
（Πρωταγόρας). A celebrated Sophist, born at Abdera, in Thrace, probably about B.C. 480, and died about 411, at the age of nearly seventy years. It is said that Protagoras was once a poor porter, and that the skill with which he had fastened together, and poised upon his shoulders, a large bundle of wood, attracted the attention of Democritus, who c...
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Protea (pronounced /ˈproʊtiːə/)[1] is both the botanical name and the English common name of a genus of flowering plants, sometimes also called sugarbushes.
The genus Protea was named in 1735 by Carolus Linnaeus after the Greek god Proteus, who could change his form at will, because proteas have such different forms. Linneaus's genus was formed by...
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Prusias I Cholus (Προυσίας Α' ὁ Χωλός "the Lame") (ca. 228 BC – 182 BC) was a king of Bithynia. The son of Ziaelas, he formed a marriage alliance with Demetrius II of Macedon, receiving the latter's daughter, Apama III, as his wife.
Prusias fought a war against Byzantium (220 BC), then defeated the Gauls that Nicomedes I had invited across the Bos...
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