Abaris the Hyperborean
mythological figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
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Stromata
Abaris the Hyperborean, legendary sage noted for prophetic foreknowledge.
And Pythagoras the great too always attended to foreknowledge, and Abaris the Hyperborean and Aristeas of Proconnesus and Epimenides the Cretan, who came to Sparta, and Zoroaster the Mede and Empedocles of Acragas and Phormion the Laconian, indeed Polyaratus the Thasian and Empedotimus the Syracusan, and besides these, especially, Socrates the Athenian.
Charmides
Legendary Hyperborean sage associated with healing charms, mentioned alongside Zalmoxis as a possible source of such charms.
if you already possess temperance, as Critias here declares, and you are sufficiently temperate, then you never had any need of the charms of Zalmoxis or of Abaris the Hyperborean, and might well be given at once the remedy for the head;