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Damascenus
[ dam-uh-see-nuhs ]
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The first place we came to was the Ager Damascenus, a long, beautiful meadow, just without the city on the west side.
"The Anacreontic hymns of John Damascenus form a marked contrast to—" when the sentence was interrupted by a knock at the door.
The work was afterwards attributed to Johannes Damascenus, who died in 760.
Johannes Damascenus was also an Arabian physician, but of a much earlier date (probably of the ninth century).
It was already known in the seventh century, and the first who mentions it is S. John Damascenus.
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