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(archaic) Alternative form of Ptolemaeus: A male given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Ptolemy. quotations
Since Tischendorf lays so much stress upon pseudo-Tertullian and Philastrius making Ptolemæus appear immediately after Valentinus, this explanation is after his own principle.
1874, Walter Richard Cassels, chapter X, in Supernatural Religion, volume II, page 219