Ed.: SSR 2.163–164 (fragments) and 4.281–283 (commentary).
Sabine Vogt
Antisthene ̄s (of Rhodes) (1st c. BCE?)
Wrote a Successions of Philosophers, known only from references in D L. The
preserved fragments contain the usual bits and pieces of biographical material. He seems to
have lived in the 1st c. BCE, but we know nothing about him.
J. Janda, “D’Antishène, auteur des Successions des philosophes,” Listy Filologické 89 (1966) 341–364;
Mejer (1978) 62–64.
Jørgen Mejer
Antoninus of Ko ̄s (30 BCE – 80 CE)
G, CMLoc 7.3 (12.843–844 K.), preserves A P.’s record that
T used Antoninus’ plaster; Askle ̄piade ̄s also gives his anti-venom made from the
herb alussos, Antid. 2.11 (14.168–169 K.). This man and Arrius Antoninus, PIR2 A-1086,
cos. suff. 69 CE, are the earliest bearers of this imperial-era cognomen.
RE 1.2 (1894) 2572 (#16), M. Wellmann.
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Antonius (170 – 190 CE)
G’s Affections and Errors of the Soul (trans. Singer, 1997, pp. 100–149) was directed
against Antonius’ Control of Individual Affections, which presented diagnoses and cures, that
Gale ̄n asserted inadequately distinguished “affection” (pathos), caused by irrational internal
powers, from “error” (hamarte ̄ma), caused by false opinions. The affections discussed by
Gale ̄n include anger (orge ̄), fear (phobos), grief (lupe ̄), and envy (phthonos), which Antonius
probably also covered. P-G D P is directed against an apparently
distinct Antonius.
DPA 1 (1989) 258 (#222), R. Goulet.
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Antonius Castor (10 – 75 CE)
P considered him the most authoritative pharmacist of his era, and used to visit his
garden, in which he worked up the age of 100 (apparently deceased when Pliny published):
25.9; he is cited as an authority 1.ind.20–27. Antonius prescribed ferula-root for eyesight
(20.261) and root of potamogiton (perhaps Hippuris vulgaris L.) for strumae (cf. C 1.9.6); he
carefully describes potamogiton, piperitis (20.174, for the mouth), and butcher’s-broom
(23.166). Like other botanists, he distinguished similar plants, such as the two kinds of
horehound, one of which he prescribed for abscesses and dog bites (20.244). Possibly the
same as A “ -.”
GRL §495.3.
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ANTISTHENE ̄S (OF RHODES)