Thallus and Josephus
The name Thallus is too common to make a probable identification with any other known Thallus.
The identication sometimes made with a certain Thallus of Samaria who is mentioned in some editions of Josephus' Antiquities (18.167) fails because that name only appears in those editions because of an idiosyncratic alteration of the text by John Hudson in 1720. Until Hudson's time all texts had (meaning "another") not . See the external link below to Jacoby and Müller.
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