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Diogenes

AVILA (Ancient city) JORDAN
Diogenes. A Phoenician, a Peripatetic philosopher, who lived in the time of Simplicius. (Suid. s. v. presbeis.) Whether he is the same as Diogenes of Abila in Phoenicia, whom Suidas and Stephanus Byzantius (s. v. Abila) call a distinguished sophist, cannot be ascertained.

A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith)
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