Aristobulus
historical figure · 3 works · 6 mentions · 6 anchored passages
Aristobulus the apothecary
spoken of as
2 expressionsAristobulus the Apothecary1 mention
Against Ctesiphon (Greek)
For, as the people of the Paralus say, and those who have been ambassadors to Alexander—and the story is sufficiently credible—there is one Aristion, a man of Plataean status, son of Aristobulus the apothecary, known perhaps to some of you.
Aristobulus the Peripatetic1 mention
Stromata (Greek)
and that their philosophy, committed to writing, preceded the philosophy among the Greeks, the Pythagorean Philo shows at length, as do also Aristobulus the Peripatetic and very many others — that I may not waste time going through them by name.
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Stromata
Jewish-Hellenistic philosopher quoted at length on Plato's and Pythagoras's dependence on Moses.
And Aristobulus, in the first book of his work addressed to Philometor, writes word for word:
And to Aristobulus, who lived under Ptolemy Philometor, whom the writer of the epitome of the books of the Maccabees mentions, there belong sufficient books, in which he shows that the Peripatetic philosophy depends upon the law according to Moses and upon the other prophets.
But indeed the fire was seen, as Aristobulus says, by all that multitude — not fewer than a hundred myriads, besides those under age — assembling round the mountain, the circuit about the mountain being not less than five days' journey.
Against Ctesiphon
The apothecary father of Aristion.
For, as the people of the Paralus say, and those who have been ambassadors to Alexander—and the story is sufficiently credible—there is one Aristion, a man of Plataean status, son of Aristobulus the apothecary, known perhaps to some of you.