to him. The real author and date of the Kheiro ̄n are unknown, but it might have been written
as early as the 4th–3rd cc. BCE, if the papyrus fragment 295 PCG = 335 R–N is confirmed
to be a part of the poem.
Ed.: Lucía Rodríguez-Noriega, Epicarmo de Siracusa. Testimonios y fragmentos. Edición crítica bilingüe (1996).
R. Kerkhof, Dorische Posse, Epicharm und Attische Komödie (2001).
Lucía Rodríguez-Noriega
Epikle ̄s of Crete (130 – 30 BCE)
Abridged B’ Hippokratic glossary (E p. 5.5 Nachm.), alphabetizing
(Ero ̄tianos p. 7.23 Nachm.), revising (A-8, A-58, A-66 [pp. 13.3, 19.3, 20.2 Nachm.]), and
mediating Bakkheios (A-4, A-8, A-58, A-66, A-69, A-73, B-8, B-30, and fragment 42
[pp. 10.16–17, 13.2–4, 19.2–5, 20.1–2, 20.12–13, 21.10–11, 28.10–14, 37.9–10, and
112.2–7 Nachm.]). Ero ̄tianos, drawing comparisons and contrasts between Bakkheios and
his successors, cites Epikle ̄s by name 23 times, quoting his glosses all but twice. See
A “O.”
RE 6.1 (1907) 117 (#5), M. Wellmann; H. von Staden, “Lexicography in the III B.C.: Bacchius of
Tanagra, Erotian, and Hippocrates” in J.A. López Férez, ed., Tratados Hipocraticos (1992) 549–569;
Ihm (2002) #50.
GLIM
Epikouros (250 BCE – 80 CE)
Pharmacist: quoted by G (CMGen 5.5, 13.807 K.), from A, for his recipe
of a plaster for the cure of scars, containing aloes, galbanum, myrrh, verdigris, etc.
Deichgäber (1930) 408 (attributed to E P); RE S.9 (1962) 64 (#5), F. Kudlien;
Fabricius (1972) 226–227.
Fabio Stok
Epikouros of Pergamon (120 – 180 CE)
Empiricist physician, teacher of G, author of a commentary on the H
C, E, Book 6 (Gal. Hipp. Epid. CMG 5.10.2.2, p. 412), and probably also of
other exegeses of Hippokratic works.
Deichgräber (1930) 408 (fragment); RE S.9 (1962) 64 (#5), F. Kudlien; Ihm (2002) #51; A. Anastassiou
and D. Irmer, Testimonien zum Corpus Hippocraticum 2.1 (1997) 486.
Fabio Stok
E S ⇒ E
Epikrate ̄s of He ̄rakleia (325 – 25 BCE)
Writer on machines listed by P. Berol. P-13044, col.8, as having constructed war-machines in
Rhodes, perhaps for the siege in 88 BCE; contrast E A.
Diels (1920) 30, n. 1.
PTK
EPIKLE ̄S OF CRETE