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Theosebia

Θεοσεβία

(Θεοσεβία), the writer of an epigram in the Greek Anthology upon the physician Ablabius, was the sister of the philosopher Zosimus of Thebes, who dedicated to her his work on chemistry, and who appears to have lived under Theodosius II., about A. D. 420. (Suid. s. v. Ζώσιμος; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. iv. p. 497, new ed., and vol. xii. p. 753, old ed.; Brunck, Anal. vol ii. p. 450; Jacobs, Anth. Graec. vol. iii. p. 156, vol. xiii. p. 961.)

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.