The Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists: The Greek tradition and its many heirs

in a (transparent?) glass vessel for testing. Since not in D L 4.23, presum- ably post 50 BCE; the anonymous epig ...

Krateuas (100 – 60 BCE) Herbalist (D MM 1.pr.1: rhizotomos) belonging to the entourage of M VI E; ...

Krato ̄n (Pharm.) (120 BCE – 25 CE) C records his remedy for ear-infection: aloes, cassia, lukion, myrrh, and nard, in hone ...

wrote in prose (Constitutions and Conversations). Diels (DK), like Philostratos (2nd–3rd c. CE; Lives of the Sophists 501 – 503) ...

to Rome to plead against the fee exacted on Athens for the ransacking of O ̄ro ̄pos. Of Kritolaos’ students, we know Aristo ̄n t ...

actor (Suet. Dom. 3.1; Mart. 11.13.7; Juv. 6.87). The Kosme ̄tika enjoyed a long life, circulating widely in Byzantine times, wi ...

Kte ̄sias of Knidos (405 – 390 BCE) Son of Kte ̄siarkhos, served as Artaxerxe ̄s II’s doctor for nearly two decades before retur ...

plaster for breaking up, drawing in, and cleansing, in G CMGen 6.14 (13.927 K.). A P. records, in Gale ̄n C ...

sea-eagle), the four objects are described and occasionally combined into a single magical preparation (a powerful amulet), expr ...

including calamine, litharge, psimuthion, ruddle, acacia, aloes, frankincense, and spikenard, in a vinegar base. RE 12.1 (1924) ...

L L. Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius of Sicca Veneria (ca 270 – 315 CE?) Before his conversion to Christianity (ca 300 CE), Lacta ...

Lakude ̄s of Kure ̄ne ̄ (245 – 205 BCE) Son of Alexander, one of C’ teachers (D L 7.183), succeeded Arke ...

Antiokhos which Largius translated from Greek and dedicated to his sons. The epistle offers dietetic prescriptions for diseases ...

Leo ̄nidas of Alexandria (Astr.) (50 – 80 CE) This poet lived at the time of Nero and Vespasian. He is particularly known to hav ...

Ionic colonnade around the exterior, and an inner courtyard with a Doric peristyle, and includes an extensive series of guest-ro ...

rue-seed, among other ingredients. For the cognomen cf. CIL 9.2693 and RE S.15 (1978) 124 (#316a), W. Eck: procos. Syria-Palesti ...

beaten and dissolved in vinegar (CMGen 4.13, 13.746–747 K.); a “dry,” i.e., fat-free, head plaster (CMGen 5.3, 13.846 K.); sever ...

Libanios of Antioch, pseudo (300 – 500 CE?) A 13th c. Greek MS, Paris, BNF, graecus 2894, contains a work on De hominis generati ...

he wrote history, published his letters, and compiled observations made on his travels into a paradoxography or commentarius. Pl ...

both dates are plausible but neither is cogent. The relief has been variously yet inconclu- sively interpreted as the horoscope ...