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| PHILO | |
| Form: Gr. Philon. | |
| Of Byzantium; a celebrated mechanician. He wrote, in the 2nd century B.C., a work on mechanics, of which only one book, on the construction of engines of war, and portions of two others, on siege-warfare, are extant. | |
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