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

Puramos (250 BCE – 95 CE) A P. records in G CMLoc 4.7 (12.777–778 K.) his eye-salve, treating scars and swe ...

interest in medicine may refer to our author rather than the philosopher (VH 9.22), if it does not refer to the pseudo-Puthagora ...

poor man (ibid.). His motivation may have been commercial, to find northern sources of tin and amber, but his interest in scienc ...

Puthio ̄n (Pharm.) (50 – 30 BCE) A P., in G CMGen 2.17 (13.536–537 K.), preserves his fracture- compound, u ...

Pythagoras of Samos (ca 570 – 495 BCE) In the ancient tradition Pythagoras (Grk. Puthagoras) is presented as a philosopher, scie ...

that Pythagoras knew the geometric, arithmetic and harmonic means. In geometry, where he continued the line of Thale ̄s, the ded ...

Q Quadratus (ca 100 BCE – 80 CE) A in G, CMGen 7.13 (13.1034 K.), records Quadratus’ akopon, of a baker’s dozen i ...

Quintus (of Pergamon?) (ca 115 – ca 145 CE) Student of M, and praised by G (Prognosis 1 [CMG 5.8.1, pp. 70–72]) as th ...

R Rabirius (ca 150 BCE – 75 CE) P records his advice that human milk benefits the bowels and serves as an emmena- gogue: 28. ...

Rhe ̄ginos (ca 65 – 180 CE) Physician, listed among the Methodists post-dating T and T (G MM 2.7.5 [10.52–5 ...

Rufı ̄nos of Antioch (ca 402 CE) Architect from Antioch summoned by Bishop Porphurios in 402 CE to build the cathedral of Gaza. ...

patients brought forth the incisive Jaundice (extant in Latin and Arabic: Ullmann 1983). Gale ̄n has enormous admiration for Ruf ...

S Sabinius Tiro (35 – 10 BCE) Author of a book on gardening (Kepourika) which he dedicated to Maecenas. In it he stated that rue ...

name phragmos. The name is unattested and Kind emends to LVSI- (i.e., L  K); cf. S. RE 3A.1 (1927) 61, F. ...

atmospheric earthquake-theory, Book 2, fr.28 M.), and took an interest in the natural pro- ducts of his regions (Book 4, frr.61, ...

with Julian’s friend Saturninus Sallustius Secundus, he resembled Julian and I intellectually. Saloustios treats divine ...

S ⇒ S S Samuel of Nehardea, Mar Samuel (d. ca 254 CE) Jewish legal scholar, physician, astronomer, and h ...

 S and H. The name may be from the Greek Sardo (Sardinia), or see Aurelius Victor, Caes. 13.3, on the Dacian king Sa ...

Svenson-Ebers (1996) 116–142; G.B. Waywell, “The sculptors of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus,” in I. Jenkins and G.B. Waywell, S ...

directly to the swollen tonsils. “The Augusta always has this compound at hand”: the “Augusta” is probably Antonia Minor, the mo ...