THEOPHRASTUS 



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2 Plin. 5. 140. Of Matriketas nothing is known. 



3 Said (Plin. 2. 31) to have first recognised the Ram and 

 the Archer. Athen. (7. 278 6) connects him with Tenedos. 



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