Apollo ̄nios of Athens (130 – 70 BCE)
Teacher of A, designed siege machines, making practical rather than theor-
etical contributions, according to A M. (p. 12 W.), and helped defend Rhodes
in the siege of 88– 87 BCE.
C. Cichorius, Römische Studien (1922) 271–279.
PTK and GLIM
Apollo ̄nios of Kition (90 – 60 BCE)
Empiricist physician, pupil of Z A, perhaps one of the two sur-
geons Apollo ̄nii mentioned by C at 7.pr. We have a commentary in three books on (or
rather an up-to-date revision of) the H O J, dedicated to Ptolemy XII
Aule ̄te ̄s (or to Ptolemy of Cyprus). The illustrations contained in the 10th c. Laurentian
codex are probably modifications of the original ones, to which Apollo ̄nios refers in the
proems to the three books. This treatise is important not only for the history of orthopedic
surgery, but also as a testimony to the tradition of the Hippokratic text, and as a linguistic
document. In his commentary Apollo ̄nios polemizes against the He ̄rophileans
B and H. In lost works about Hippokratic exegesis, he dealt with lexi-
cography and criticized the Lexeis by Bakkheios; in another polemic treatise, in 18 books, he
shielded Bakkheios from the criticisms leveled against him by the Empiricist H-
T (this fact has called into question his actual belonging to the Empiricist
“school”). We also know (from C A Chron. 1.140 [CML 6.1.1, p. 512])
about a treatise On epileptics (whence a fragment in A T 1.15 [1.559,
561 Puschm.]).
Ed.: J. Kollesch and F. Kudlien, Apollonios of Kition. Kommentar zu Hippokrates über die Einrenken der Gelenke
(1965) = CMG 11.1.1; Deichgräber (1930) 206–209 (fragments), 262–263.
J. Kollesch and F. Kudlien, “Bemerkungen zum Peri arthro ̄n Kommentar des Apollonios von Kition,”
Hermes 89 (1961) 322–332; J. Blomqvist, Der Hippokratestext des Apollonios von Kitios (1974); Smith (1979)
212 – 222; P. Potter, “Apollonius and Galen on ‘Joints’,” AGM 32 (1993) 117–123; A. Roselli, “Tra
pratica medica e filologia ippocratica,” in Sciences exactes et sciences appliquées à Alexandria, ed. Argoud-
Guillaumin (1998) 217–231; OCD3 127, H. von Staden; BNP 1 (2002) 881–882 (#16), V. Nutton;
Ihm (2002) #13; AML 69 – 70, K.-H. Leven.
Fabio Stok
Apollo ̄nios of Laodikeia (ca 180 – 380 CE)
Wrote a work arguing against the system of computing zodiacal rising times used by “Egyp-
tian,” i.e., Alexandrian, astrologers, according to P A, pr., who
mentions him “in addition to” P and A.
RE 2.1 (1895) 161 (#115), E. Riess.
PTK
Apollo ̄nios of Memphis (250 – 200 BCE)
Student of the Erasistratean S; he explained the pulse as pneuma from the
heart filling the arteries (G, Diff. Puls. 4.17, 8.759–761 K.), and also wrote on anatomy
(-G, I 10, 14.699–700 K.; -G, D pr.
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