cantharides beetles, ground into cedar oil. The name is puzzling, apparently “Pear-tree
Sage-apple” (cf. T, HP 3.8.6), although Apios is attested as a name (LGPN
1.49, 3A.50). Perhaps emend the first name to the Roman “Appius,” or more likely emend
ΑΠΙΟΣΦΑΣΚΟΣ to ΑΠΙ<ΩΝ>ΟΣΟΑΣΕΩΣ (i.e., A O).
RE 1.2 (1894) 2810, M. Wellmann.
PTK
Apollinarios (Pharm.) (ca 160 – 260 CE?)
M B lists “Apollinaris” after C, P, A, and
before L D, among the ancient medical authorities writing in Latin
whose work he examined (pr.2 [CML 5, p. 3]). O preserves the recipe for
Apollinarios’ eye-salve containing psimuthion, calamine, roasted copper, myrrh, aloe,
saffron, acacia, tragacanth, meal, opium, gum, and rain-water (Syn. 3.118 [CMG 6.3, p. 98]).
Not an uncommon name, both variants of which are known from the 1st–3rd cc. CE
(LGPN).
RE 2.1 (1895) 2844 (#2), P. von Rohden.
GLIM
Apollinarios of Aizanoi (30 – 180 CE)
Astronomer mentioned in a handful of ancient sources (G; V V 6.4.8
[p. 239], 9.12.10 [p. 339]; P T; P A), and quoted
at some length in two MSS of H T. He was seemingly reputed an
important astronomer in antiquity. Surviving evidence allows the attribution of a 248-day
scheme for lunar motion based on Babylonian models, with the solstitial and equinoctial
points at 8 ̊ of their respective signs. Surviving fragments contain an account of lunar
motion of some sophistication.
Ed.: A. Jones, “Ptolemy’s First Commentator,” Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 80.7
(1990).
A. Jones, “The Development and Transmission of 248-Day Schemes for Lunar Motion in Ancient
Astronomy,” AHES 29 (1983) 1–36; NDSB 1.82–83, Idem.
Daryn Lehoux
Apollodo ̄ros (Med.) (325 – 150 BCE)
In his register of sources P lists three medical writers named Apollodo ̄ros, in addition
to A ̄: (1) doctor A K, 1.ind.20–27, (2)
doctor A T, 1.ind.20–27, and (3) the author of On Perfumes and Chap-
lets, 1.ind.12–13, of which Athe ̄naios (Deipn. 15 [675e]) quotes a substantial fragment. One
of these men may be identical to the Apollodo ̄ros who wrote to an unspecified “King
Ptolemy” instructing him which wines to drink, in an era when Italian wines were still
unknown to the Greeks (Pliny 14.76).
RE 1.2 (1894) 2895 (#70), M. Wellmann.
Philip Thibodeau
APOLLODO ̄ROS (MED.)