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I. Literary Ptolemies

Πτολεμαῖος

(Πτολεμαῖος), literary. The celebrated astronomer and geographer of this name is spoken of below under Ptolemaeus, Claudius.

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.