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Brewer's: Therapeu'tæ
The Therapeutæ of Philo were a branch of the Essenes. The word Essenes is Greek, and means “doctors” (essaioi), and Therapeutæ is merely a synonym of the same word.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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