Ptolemaeus
Americannoun
noun
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A Latin inscription next to him reads “In this mountain range, King Ptolemaeus uses a world-compass and through astrology, by longitudes and by latitudes, he constructed a mappa mundi and a cosmography.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2023
Modern popular astrology runs directly back to Claudius Ptolemaeus, whom we call Ptolemy, although he was unrelated to the kings of the same name.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
It is not impossible that Heracleon and Ptolemaeus may have been still living at the time when Hippolytus wrote, but this cannot be inferred simply from the tense of the verb.
From The Gospels in the Second Century An Examination of the Critical Part of a Work Entitled 'Supernatural Religion' by William Sanday
It would appear as if this vast plain were sprinkled with immense lava blocks shot forth from the great volcanoes on the right, Ptolemaeus, Alphonse, Alpetragius and Arzachel.
From All Around the Moon by Edward Roth
The quadremes and quinqueremes carried from three to four hundred rowers, and a ship belonging to Ptolemaeus Philopater is described as carrying four thousand rowers.
From How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 by William Henry Giles Kingston
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