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was a

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, who must have lived in or before the fourth century BCE, as he is mentioned by

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, who quotes from his writings a passage on the origin of the veins. This fragment also forms part of the treatise ''De Ossium Natura'' in the

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,''

'' vol. i. p. 507 which is in fact composed entirely of passages taken from different ancient writers.

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