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Epipha'nius

*)Epifa/nios).

1. Of ALEXANDRIA, son of the mathematician Theon, who addresses to him his commentaries on Ptolemy. (Theon, Commentary on Ptolemy, ed. Halma, Paris, 1821-22.) Possibly this Epiphanius is one of the authors of a work περὶ βροντῶν καὶ ἀστραπῶν, by Epiphanius and Andreas, or Andrew, formerly in the library of Dr. George Wheeler, canon of Durhan. ( Catal. MSS. Angliae et Hiberniae, Oxon. 1697.)

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