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

22.1), the other on orthopnoia (Hippiatrica Parisina 456 = Hippiatrica Berolinensia 27.1). In both, Apsurtos addresses Secundus ...

11 [469c], 14 [618a], 14 [645b], 15 [676f-177a]). In Ne ̄sias, he reported the summertime practice of chilling water underground ...

description of the topic as treated by previous commentators, usually an outline of the basic principles, and an orientation wit ...

Serapio ̄n (or Sarapio ̄n) of Alexandria (240 – 200 BCE) Physician, the second exponent of the Empiricist “school” after P ...

Q. Serenus Sammonicus (ca 190 – 212 CE) Preserved under the name of Quinctus (or Quintus) Serenus (or Serenius) is a Liber medic ...

SCo) than by their structure: a skillful combination of theorems and problems, the first progressively leading the reader to con ...

in verdigris: G CMGen 7.13 (13.1037 K.); another recipe, for a diaphore ̄tike ̄, ibid. 6.14 (13.926–927 K.). Since sage is ...

(the “oil,” good for worms, says Seuerus), rose-water, opium-poppy capsules, etc. Seuerus’ Enemas is not so much a physician’s h ...

There are also some extant fragments concerning geography. In his astronomical writ- ings, he refers to the work of B, p ...

offers the same preparation for use as a hair remover; Sex- tius had stated that the salamander did not quench fire, a “fact” re ...

comprehensive but incomplete work), and in the complete but more synoptic Outlines of Pyrrhonism (“PH”). In addition, Sextus’ th ...

Silanio ̄n of Athens (360 – 320 BCE) Wrote on symmetry (P 34.51; V 7.pr.14). He sculpted portraits in bronze, includ ...

Simmias son of Me ̄dios or Me ̄deios (260 – 220 BCE?) The name Simmias is linked to two potions against the sting of phalanx-spi ...

von Staden (1989) 367–368; V. Dasen, “Multiple births in Graeco-Roman Antiquity,” OJA 16 (1997) 439 – 463. Robert Littman Simo ̄ ...

commentaries after 532 (it is disputed where, but provided with a sizeable library, given the range of writers he uses). He pres ...

Some evidence exists that Simplicius wrote a commentary on a Hippocratic work, found in the Fihrist (work not specified) and in ...

peoples and places in the Mediterranean, and seem to come from a variant of the later Periplous of the Mediterranean wrongly att ...

Sminthe ̄s (500 – 250 BCE?) Nothing is known about this author of an astronomical poem entitled Phainomena, which A (Ph. ...

So ̄krate ̄s (Med.) (10 BCE – 100 CE) G, Eupor. 3 (14.501 K.), cites his “famous pill” for headaches and migraines, contain ...

So ̄ranos of Ephesos (98 – 138 CE) Prominent Methodist, ranked with H and G for astute contributions to the prac ...