The corpus author "Thessalus of Cos" here is the pseudepigraphic voice of the first-century CE Greek treatise On the Virtues of Herbs (De virtutibus herbarum), an astro-botanical (iatromathematical) pharmacological work. It is not by the historical Thessalus, son of Hippocrates (Classical Cos), and it is not the Methodist physician Thessalus of Tralles.
Hallmarks of the text include the parental dedication frame, the Alexandria episode, and herb properties keyed to the zodiac. Scholarly dating places composition in the Claudian, Neronian, or Flavian period of the first century CE. The five works under this author are segments of that treatise.
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On the Virtues of Herbs
Περὶ τῶν ἀρετῶν τῶν βοτάνων
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On the Virtues of Herbs
Περὶ τῶν ἀρετῶν τῶν βοτάνων
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On the Virtues of Herbs
Περὶ τῶν ἀρετῶν τῶν βοτάνων
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On the Virtues of Herbs
Περὶ τῶν ἀρετῶν τῶν βοτάνων
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On the Virtues of Herbs
Περὶ τῶν ἀρετῶν τῶν βοτάνων
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