The Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists: The Greek tradition and its many heirs

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DSB 4.488–491, I. Bulmer-Thomas; A. Cameron “Isidore of Miletus and Hypatia: On the editing of
mathematical texts,” GRBS 31 (1990) 103–127; Jones (1999); Decorps-Foulquier (2000).
Alain Bernard


Eutonios (250 BCE – 365 CE)


Arkhiatros whose sciatica remedy was compounded from aged olive oil, wild cucumber
cooked therein, beeswax, purethron, raw sulfur, terebinth, euphorbia, staphis, barley,
thapsia, dittany, and marsh-salt (D 5.119) (O, Syn. 3.91, CMG 6.3,
p. 93). An extremely rare name, known only at Athens (4th c. BCE: LGPN 2.184).


RE 6.1 (1907) 1519, M. Wellmann.
GLIM


Eutropius of Bordeaux (350 – 390 CE)


Physician mentioned among his sources by M  B, who also says that
he worked recently, and was an eminent citizen of Bordeaux (pr.2). He is possibly the
Eutropius addressee of eight letters of Symmachus (epist. 3.46–53: 377– 387 CE), a political
personage who is generally identified with the historian author of the Breuiarium (369 CE).


RE 6.1 (1907) 1520 (#3), J Seeck; PLRE 1 (1971) 317 (#2); Matthews (1975) 8–9, 72–73.
Fabio Stok


Eutychianus (200 – 400 CE)


M  B attributes to the archiater (“imperial physician”) Eutychianus
the recipe of a pill against various diseases (14.70: CML 5, p. 246); O that of a
salve for cicatrization (Ecl. Med. 95: CMG 6.2.2, p. 272). He is identifiable with the Terentius
Eutychianus quoted by the Antidotarium Bruxellense for a laxative recipe (T
P p. 368 Rose).


RE 6.1 (1907) 1532 (#8), M. Wellmann.
Fabio Stok


Expositio geographiae (9th c. CE?)


The author is more likely to be from the circle of the 9th c. patriarch Pho ̄tios of Constanti-
nople than to be the much earlier P. His geographical compendium Hupotupo ̄sis
geo ̄graphias en epitome ̄ is connected in 9th c. and later MSS with A’ Geo ̄graphias
hupotupo ̄sis. The text (14 chapters and 53 paragraphs), starting with reflections on the Earth’s
circumference, according to S, presents different passages from Strabo ̄n and
P, sometimes verbatim (§§ 46 – 53 = Strabo ̄n 2.5.18–25), and emphasizes geographical
more than astronomical matters. There are numerous arithmetical errors and inaccuracies,
possibly suggesting two redactions.


Ed.: GGM 2.494–509.
RE 1.1 (1893) 743, H. Berger; A. Diller, “The Scholia on Strabo,” Traditio 10 (1954) 29–50 at 49–50;
RE S.10 (1965) 800–805, E. Polaschek; HLB 1.508–509.
Andreas Kuelzer


EXPOSITIO GEOGRAPHIAE
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