{"collection":"Sacred Texts: The Classics","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_cla_app_app73_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_cla_app_app73_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_cla_app_app73_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/app/app73.htm","summary":"B\u00f4lus of Mend\u00ea in the Nile Delta, lived in the third century B.C. He wrote works on Potent Natural Products, and on Antipathetic and Sympathetic Substances, which were often ascribed to Democritus; these were books of magic remedies. He also wrote other works of magical doctrine, on alchemy and divination.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: 78. B\u00f4lus of Mend\u00ea","tradition":"Sacred Texts: The Classics","translated_text":null,"word_count":59}