**Posidonius** (pōsēdō`nēəs), Greek: Ποσειδώνιος (Poseidonios), (= “of Poseidon”), commonly named “ὁ Ἀπαμεύς” (= **“of Apameia”**) or “ὁ Ῥόδιος” (= **“of Rhodes”**) (b. ca. 135 B.C. in Apameia, Syr…