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Apollonius Paradoxographus was the otherwise unknown author of a paradoxographical work entitled Mirabilia or Historiae Mirabiles. This was compiled from the works of earlier writers around the 2nd century BC.

Nothing is known about Apollonius. His one surviving work, the Mirabilia, is a collection of wonderful phenomena of nature, gathered from the works of Aristotle, Theophrastus, and others. It was formerly published under the name of Apollonius Dyscolus who was known to have written a work called On Fabricated History, but which was probably an exposition of certain errors or forgeries which had crept into history.

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1. Craig A. Evans, (2005), Ancient texts for New Testament studies: a guide to the background literature, page 288. Hendrickson Publishers
2. ^ Schmitz, Leonhard (1867), "Apollonius (16)", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, p. 239, archived from the original on 2012-10-11, retrieved 2010-08-09
3. Suda, Apollonius α3422

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• 2nd-century BC writers
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