verdigris, myrrh, frankincense, and opium in gum; and the other substituting khalkan-
thon for the verdigris, and saffron for the opium, and providing immediate pain relief
(12.771 K.).
RE 5.1 (1903) 829 (#15), M. Wellmann.
GLIM
Dio ̄n (Med.) (120 BCE – 120 CE)
S, Gyn 4.14 (CMG 4, p. 144; CUF v. 2, p. 11), records that he recommended
potions of elelisphakos, myrrh, or celery seed, to expel afterbirth; he is there listed after
H and E, among other writers later than them. O, Syn.
3.138 (CMG 6.3, p. 103), and A A, 7.30 (CMG 8.2, pp. 276–277), record a
collyrium (containing acacia, frankincense, Indian nard, myrrh, poppy-juice, etc., and to be
applied in egg-white) by Dio ̄n, who despite the frequency of the name may be the same
man.
RE 5.1 (1903) 877 (#21), M. Wellmann.
PTK
D K ⇒ D K
Dio ̄n of Neapolis (120 – 80 BCE)
C 18.14 records that Dio ̄n computed the “Great Year” as 10,884 years; A-
, City of God 21.8.2, quotes V following Kasto ̄r of Rhodes saying that Dio ̄n and
A K computed the date of a portent of Venus.
RE 5.1 (1903) 877 (#23), Fr. Hultsch.
PTK
Dio ̄nide ̄s (350 BCE – 400 CE)
Cyril of Alexandria, Dict. (D, fr.12 van der Eijk) – cf. K – lists many out-
standing doctors (G and earlier, save for P and the presumably intrusive
A T), among whom the otherwise unknown and possibly corrupt
Dio ̄nide ̄s.
(*)
PTK
Dionusios (Astron.) (fl. 285 BCE)
Astronomer who lived at Alexandria, according to a scholion to the Almagest. In his Almagest,
P cites seven observations of the apparent positions of Mercury (9.7, 9.10) and
Mars (9.9) relative to stars, dated by a calendar “according to Dionusios,” ranging from 272
to 241 BCE; it is not known whether any of them were made by Dionusios himself. His
calendar used solar years beginning at the summer solstice, divided into 12 months named
after signs of the zodiac. Years were counted sequentially from a year 1 beginning with
the solstice of 285 BCE, chosen perhaps because it immediately preceded Ptolemy II Phila-
delphos’ first regnal year. The precise structure of the calendar, probably intended for
astronomical, not civil, use, is disputed.
DIO ̄N (MED.)