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	Dorotheus of Sidon
		Dorotheus (Dorotheos in the Greek) is generally believed to have lived before Balbillus (Nero's astrologer) and hence would have thrived in the first part of the first century, probably before 65 AD, after Manilius (c.
		Dorotheus was recognised as a major authority by classical and medieval astrologers both in the Christian and Islamic worlds.
		According to Jim Tester Dorotheus' principle impact on Hellenistic astrology was to irrevocably shift the emphasis from the character analysis from birth charts to the study of katarchai, or interrogations (5).
	www.nickcampion.com /nc/history/articles/dorotheus.htm (1072 words)

	St. Abba Dorotheus of Gaza - Christian Classics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		One of the great teachers of the spiritual life in sixth-century Egypt, Dorotheus was first educated in the secular sciences, but after encountering such notable spiritual teachers as Barsanuphius and Evagrius, he felt compelled to renounce worldly pursuits and take monastic vows at the monastery of Abba Serid near Gaza.
		Dorotheus emphasizes the attitude of the heart in approach to God, the practice of the Jesus prayer, and humility as the epitome of all virtues.
		In it, Dorotheus uses the metaphor of building a house to explore building the soul in the spiritual life.
	www.touchstonemag.com /docs/issues/15.6docs/15-6pg53.html (914 words)

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		Dorotheus presents it to his monks in a more general and methodical form; but he is still concrete and practical.
		Dorotheus too was attracted by hesychia at the beginning of his religious life, but his two spiritual masters made him realise that the eremitical life was not for him.
		Dorotheus also saw that it was very good for that; but he did not want Dositheus to be attached to anything too much, so he did not let him keep the knife.
	www.scourmont.be /studium/bresard/13-gaza.htm (8686 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1069 (v. 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The passage, however, as represented by Augustinus, is not to be found in the Prooemium of the Syntagma of Blastares, as edited by Bishop Beveridge in the second volume of his Synodicon.
		Dorotheus died in the lifetime of Stephanus, by whom he is termed 6 /j-aKairys in Basil, iii.
		408) cites a scholium of Dorotheus Mona- chus on the title de testibus in the Compendium Legum Leonis et Constantini.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/1075.html (916 words)

	Saint Dositheus of Gaza (C) (Monk), Feast February 23 St. Dositheus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Dorotheus understood the difficulty of extreme swings of fervor and left Dositheus to his own devices regarding food, but was careful to instill in him the necessity of perfect renunciation of his own will in all things great and small.
		Thus Dorotheus proceeded with his pupil in other monastic duties and by a constant and unreserved denial of his own will, and a perfect submission to his director, he surpassed in virtue the greatest fasters of the monastery.
		After Dositheus's death, Dorotheus declared that he had surpassed the rest in virtue without the practice of any extraordinary austerity.
	www.reu.org /public/saints/DOSITHEU.HTM (413 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1068 (v. 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		A considerable number of works are mentioned by ancient writers as the productions of Dorotheus, without our being able to determine whether they belong to one or to different persons.
		Some critics are inclined to consider Dorotheus of Sidon as identical with the Chaldaean.
		Of tyre, has been frequently confounded with Dorotheus, a presbyter of Antioch in the reign of Diocletian, who is spoken of by Eusebius.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/1074.html (1002 words)

	Reference
		Dorotheus advocated the study of trigon lords for virtually every topic.
		Now, the writings of Dorotheus, Ptolemy, and Valens become the canonical texts for several generations of commentators and compilers, although these later authors also had access to some of the original Hermetic source material and the writings of the first expositors.
		However, we see that in many cases the writings of Dorotheus, Ptolemy, and Valens were just as obscure and ambiguous to them as the writings of the Hermetic tradition were to these three authors themselves.
	www.projecthindsight.com /reference/catalog.html (3424 words)

	THE CHOOSING OF THE SEVENTY HOLY APOSTLES
		Dorotheus came once more to the city of Odessus polis, where he was seized by Julian’s princes and suffered many tortures in his very old age for confessing Christ, and died as a martyr at the age of one hundred and seventy.
		This saintly Dorotheus speaks of the seventy apostles and disciples of Christ, many of whom were bishops among different peoples, while others served as preachers, whom the divine Paul mentions in tile salutations in his epistles.
		The saintly and most-blessed Dorotheus, while he was bishop of the church of Tyre, wrote about them and left his writings to the church, in order to commemorate the holy apostles, about whom even Paul wrote, saying: they were servants of God before us.
	www.orthodox.net /saints/70apostles.html (1296 words)

	DOROTHEUS - Online Information article about DOROTHEUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		work was accomplished in 533• Dorotheus was subsequently the author of a commentary on the Digest, which is called the See also:
		Basilica, from which it seems probable that the commentary of Dorotheus contained the substance of a course of lectures on the Digest delivered by him in the law school of Berytus, although it is not See also:
		CAST (from the verb meaning " to throw "; the word is Scand.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /DIO_DRO/DOROTHEUS.html (979 words)

	"Directions on the Spiritual Life -- Part V" -- Abba Dorotheus
		Abba Dorotheus lived at the end of the sixth and beginning of the seventh centuries.
		Abba Dorotheus soon completed his monastic education under Barsanuphius and John and served in the monastery's hospice and infirmary.
		It was at this point in his life that Abba Dorotheus began to deliver homilies to his disciples -- 21 in all -- which were preserved and passed on to us by his followers.
	www.innerlightproductions.com /thoughts/feb0401.htm (1132 words)

	Lives of Saints :: Hator 12
		An example of one of his wonders: A God-fearing man whose name was Dorotheus and his wife Theopista, held a festival of commemoration for the honored angel Michael on the twelfth day of each month.
		Michael the Archangel appeared to Dorotheus and commanded him not to sell his clothes, but to go to a sheep-master and to take from him a sheep worth one-third of a dinar.
		He was also to go to a fisherman and to take from him a fish worth one-third of a dinar but Dorotheus was not to slit open the fish until he came back to him.
	www.copticchurch.net /classes/synex.php?id=72 (494 words)

	The Martyrdom of the Apostles
		Note: The history of the 70 Apostles by Dorotheus, Bishop of Tyre is believed to be a fake.
		Dorotheus, is believed to have never existed, and the work is believed to be a forgery compiled in the eighth century by a cleric of Byzantium (Eastern Orthodox Church).
		During the last twenty years of the third century Eusebius visited Antioch, where he made the acquaintance of the priest Dorotheus, and heard him expound the Scriptures (H. By a slip of the pen or the memory, Lightfoot (p.
	www.bibleprobe.com /apostles.htm (1673 words)

	Dorotheus -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		jurist, one of the principal codifiers of Roman law under the emperor Justinian I. Dorotheus helped to compile the Digest, or Pandects (published in 533), and the second edition of the Codex Constitutionum (published in 534).
		With Tribonian (Tribonianus), head of the Digest's compilers, and Theophilus, he also prepared the Institutes (533) as an introduction to the Digest.
		There were Pahlavi (Iranian language) translations of Dorotheus of Sidon, Vettius Valens, Hermes, and an Indian called (in the Arabic sources) Farmasp.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9030983 (330 words)

	A Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century A.D., with an Account of the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Dorotheus and his abettor Aristides the presbyter to Rome, that they might give account of their faith and receive resolution of their doubts.
		Dorotheus was cited before the emperor at Heraclea; he appealed to Rome, but the emperor thought it unadvisable to send him there, as his accusers would not be present.
		Dorotheus was now obliged by the emperor to send deputies to Rome to satisfy the pope.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/wace/biodict.v.iv.xxxviii.html (633 words)

	Iranica.com - EKòTÈAÚRAÚT
		The judgement that it is or it is not propitious to begin a specified activity when the moon is in a designated zodiacal sign occurs first in Akkadian texts of the Seleucid period (Reiner, pp.108-11).
		Dorotheus of Sidon initiated a more complex method of practicing catarchic astrology in which the astrologer must search for the most propitious moment for undertaking an activity, basing his judgment on the full horoscope of that time.
		After this form of catarchic astrology reached India in the second century, it was paralleled by the Indian development of interrogational astrology (pras‚najña@na), in which the judgment concerning an activity was based on the horoscope of the moment at which the question was posed to the astrologer.
	www.iranica.com /articles/v8f3/v8f332.html (1273 words)

	Skyscript: The Classical Use of Triplicities
		In judging the overall fortune and condition of life, Dorotheus advises us to consider the Sun and the rulers of its triplicity in a diurnal nativity and the Moon and the rulers of its triplicity in a nocturnal nativity.
		All three triplicity rulers are cadent, which Dorotheus took to indicate that the native would always be poor and needy and would struggle to meet his daily needs.
		Dorotheus took this to mean that the native would 'receive the praise of noble and wealthy men'.
	www.skyscript.co.uk /triplicities.html (1920 words)

	Families of Virginia . . . - Person Page 22 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		William Via was born circa 1752 in Louisa County, VA. He was the son of David Via I and Frances Stringer.
		Dorotheus Vincent married second Mary Tackett before 1668 in VA. His death was estimated to be before 1685.
		She was the daughter of Dorotheus Vincent and Mary Tackett.
	home.earthlink.net /~rjfamily/data/va/p22.htm (400 words)

	Charles Saba: History: Syria
		Dorotheus' principle impact on the Greeks was an irrevocable shift towards horary interrogations.
		Thus, the foremost scholar in Europe was advising the most powerful man of time on the basis of the rules for celestial analysis set down twelve hundred years earlier by Dorotheus of Sidon.
		Unfortunately, it was burnt by the Romans during one of their invasions to Egypt in 48 BC.
	www.chsaba.com /history/syria.html (247 words)

	Dorotheus and his Digest Translation. - BRANDSMA, F. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Dorotheus was professor at the law school of Beirut around the year 530 A.D. His fame had obviously preceded him to the imperial residence in Constantinople, for emperor Justine summoned him to court in that year to participate in the committee which was assigned to compile the Digest and the Institutes.
		After these two law books had been written and published in 533, a revised edition of Justinian's Codex was compiled by a committee of which Dorotheus was also member.
		So Dorotheus took an importantpart in the information of the Justinianic law books and this certainly makes any of his writings an interesting source of information on Justinian's codification.
	www.antiqbook.nl /boox/nij/3535.shtml (237 words)

	Berytus City of Phoenicia and its Roman School of Law
		The little work of Gaius, most of which we now possess under the title of Commentarii institutionum, had served this purpose for nearly four centuries; but much of it had, owing to changes in the law, become inapplicable, so that a new manual seemed to be required.
		Dorotheus (first half of the 6th century AD), jurist, was one of the principal codifiers of Roman law under the emperor Justinian I. Dorotheus helped to compile the Digest, or Pandects (published in 533), and the second edition of the Codex Constitutionum (published in 534).
		Dorotheus taught jurisprudence in the school of Roman law at Berytus at that time probably the best law school in the eastern Roman Empire.
	phoenicia.org /law.html (1015 words)

	St. Pachomius Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		A monk known for his sermons, Dorotheus of Gaza was born c.
		He may have left because of his fondness for the writings of Evagrius Pontus, whose work is sometimes considered similar to that of Origen, whom Barsanuphrios had condemned.
		As archimandrite, Dorotheus wrote spiritual instructions for his monks in which he praises humility above all the other virtues.
	www.voskrese.info /spl/XdorotheusGaza.html (110 words)

	Doug Robinson: Unpublished Books: LXX
		Wherein Bacchus appears to Dorotheus and Hypatia to enlist them in his struggle against Yahweh; while he is there a kosher inspector arrives to inspect the food being served to the Jewish Torah scholars.
		Wherein Bacchus turns up to warn Dorotheus and Hypatia to look out for the Holy Ghost, and Dorotheus goes out to the island to make sure the Egyptian translators are finishing his recipe translation as promised.
		Wherein Dorotheus, finally bringing together the ingredients, machines, and instructions that will enable him to make Manna and so to rule the universe, is struck down by Jesus and converted to Christianity.
	home.olemiss.edu /~djr/pages/writer/books/unpub/lxx.html (2986 words)

	OCA - Lives of all saints commemorated on this day
		Dorotheus, Mardonius, Migdonius, Peter, Indes and Gorgonius died during this period.
		One of them was beheaded by the sword, others perished by burning, or being buried alive, or by drowning in the sea.
		Saint Dorotheus suffered with the Hieromartyr Anthimus, Bishop of Nicomedia, during the persecution against Christians under the emperors Diocletian (284-305) and Maximian (305-311).
	www.oca.org /FSlivesAllSaintsPrint.asp?SID=4&M=9&D=3 (3494 words)

	Eusebius of Caesarea -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		He became acquainted with the presbyter Dorotheus in (A town in southern Turkey; ancient commercial center and capital of Syria; an early center of Christianity) Antioch and probably received exegetical instruction from him.
		In (additional info and facts about 296) 296 he was in Palestine and saw (A walled city in northeastern Algeria east of Algiers; was destroyed in warfare in the 4th century and rebuilt by Constantine I) Constantine who visited the country with (additional info and facts about Diocletian) Diocletian.
		At first he occupied himself with works on Biblical criticism, under the influence of Pamphilus and probably of Dorotheus of the School of Antioch.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/eu/eusebius_of_caesarea.htm (2841 words)

	"Directions on the Spiritual Life - Part III"
		In this issue we will continue our study on the teachings of Abba Dorotheus of Gaza, one of my own personal favorites among the Desert Fathers.
		Together, the teachings of these two great spiritual fathers of the Early Church will provide us with the guidance we need to start the new year with a commitment to growing spiritually in the weeks and months ahead.
		In creating man God implanted in him something Divine -- a certain thought, like a spark, having both light and warmth, a thought which illumines the mind and shows what is good and what bad.
	www.innerlightproductions.com /thoughts/jan2101.htm (898 words)

	CHRISTIAN TEACHING
		In the history of Orthodox monasticism of the 6th and 7th centuries there is the name of the venerable Dorotheus, who had a disciple named Dositheus.
		Dositheus was assigned to Dorotheus for the purpose of spiritual instruction.
		When the vision ended, the ascetic began asking Abba Dorotheus and the other monastics about how and in what Dositheus had spiritually labored, to merit such a blissful fate after death.
	www.holy-transfiguration.org /library_en/ct_love_humility.html (397 words)

	DOROTHEUS - Encyclopedia Britannica - DOROTHEUS - JCSM's Study Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		DOROTHEUS, a professor of jurisprudence in the law school of Berytus in Syria,and one of the three commissioners appointed by the emperor Justinian to draw up a book of Institutes, after the model of the Institutes of Gaius, which should serve as an introduction to the Digest already completed.
		was accomplished in 533 Dorotheus was subsequently the author of a commentary on the Digest, which is called the Index, and was published by him in 542.
		Fragments of this commentary, which was in the Greek language, have been preserved in the Scholia appended to the
	jcsm.org /StudyCenter/Encyclopedia_Britannica/DIO_DRO/DOROTHEUS.html (809 words)

	Skyscript: Star Lore of the Constellations - Leo the Lion
		Ancient astrologers therefore avoided this constellation for any activity pertaining to fluids and warned against administering medicines, bathing, or commencing sea travel when either of the luminaries are in this part of the sky.
		It imports the Native to undergoe no small damage in Honour, perill in his life, and many discommodities in Estate; let him beware of being murdered by souldiers, let him observe moderation in Dyet, and in all his actions, for he inclines to Violence and Intemperancy.
		Dorotheus also mentioned the Mane of the Lion as an area of blindness.
	www.skyscript.co.uk /leo_myth.html (1461 words)

	Serbian Orthodox Church - Our Holy Father Dositheus
		Dositheus was a disciple of the famous Abba Dorotheus, who lived with Saints Seridus, John and Barsanuphius the Great.
		He was kinsman to a general and travelled to Jerusalem to see the holy places.
		Dorotheus received him as his cell-servant and commanded him utterly to forsake his own will and obey his spiritual father.
	www.serbianorthodoxchurch.net /cgi-bin/saints.cgi?view=139670410057 (202 words)

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