PHILO OF

See also:

• BYZANTIUM

BYZANTIUM  , Greek writer on mechanics, flourished during the latter half of the 2nd century B.C . (according to some, a century earlier) . He was the author of a large work Mip avu(i) uuvraEcs), of which the fourth and (in epitome) fifth books are extant, treating of missiles, the construction of fortresses, provisioning, attack and defence (ed . R . Schone, 1893, with German translation in H . Kochly's Griechische Kriegsschriftstelkr, vol. i . 1853; E . A . Rochas d'Aiglun, Poliorcetique des Grecs, 1872) . Another portion of the work, on pneumatic engines, has been preserved in the form of a Latin translation (De ingeniis spiritualibus) made from an Arabic version (ed . W . Schmidt, with German translation, in the works of Heron of Alexandria, vol. i., in " Teubner Series," 1899; with French translation by Rochas, La Science des philosophes .

. . dans l'antiquite, 1882) . A little

treatise On the Seven Wonders of the World, wrongly attributed to Philo, probably belongs to the 6th century A.D . It is printed in R . Hercher's Aelian (1858) .