Dorotheus
4. A CHALDAEAN, is mentioned as the author of a work περὶ λὶθων by Plutarch (de Flum. 23), who quotes the second book of it. He may be the same as the Dorotheus referred to by Pliny (Plin. Nat. 22.22), though the latter may also be identical with the Athenian, No. 3.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.