Flauius (?) (270 – 305 CE)
Fellow-teacher with L in Nikome ̄deia, and author of a poetic De Medicinalibus
(cf. Q. S and M P), entirely lost. The “name” Flauius was by this
time becoming a title, and FLAVIVS may conceal some other name (Hosius suggests
Fabius; cf. perhaps F).
RE S.5 (1931) 224 (#83a), C. Hosius.
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L. Flauius Arrianus of Nikome ̄deia (120 – 170 CE)
Arrian(us), born ca 85 – 95 CE, Roman citizen of high status, interested since youth in hunt-
ing, military exercises and scholarship. Arrian published his mentor Epikte ̄tos/Epictetus’
lectures (Diatribai) epitomized in Enkheiridion. He became proconsul of Hispania, suffect
consul (129 or 130), legatus Augusti in Cappadocia, and eponymous archon in Athens
in 145/6. Arrian’s writings include a lost Meteorology (wherein he tried to show that
comets are atmospheric phenomena), On the Hunt (Kune ̄getikos), Ektaxis and Taktike ̄ (on military
art), Anabasis of Alexander, and Indike ̄ (an historical and geographical treatise on India).
Arrian, greatly admiring X, seems to have based his methodological criteria
on two principles: mathematical scientific nature and autoptical observation. Arrian
assembled the best sources (in his opinion), reading most of them directly, not second-hand,
citing authors often, but not always explicitly, never confusing them. Occasionally synthesiz-
ing sources, he often quoted them verbatim. The Ektaxis and Taktike ̄ reveal Arrian’s
deep tactical comprehension, regarding especially the position of two infantry bulwarks
anchoring the wings, anticipating the T battle-formation; the modern concept of draw
concentration from the circumference to the center; and the principle of the mass applied to
the draw.
Cristiano Dognini, L’ “Indiké” di Arriano. Commento storico (2000); A.G. Roos and G. Wirth, Flavii Arriani,
Quae extant omnia 2 vv. (1967–1968); H. Tonnet, Recherches sur Arrien. Sa personnalité et ses écrits atticistes
2 vv. (1988); G. Wirth and O. von Hinüber, Der Alexanderzug. Indische Geschichte (1985).
Cristiano Dognini
Flauius “the boxer” (30 BCE – 80 CE)
G, CMLoc 9.5 (13.294 K.), preserves A’ record of Flauius’ powder for
“dysentery”: myrtle, roses, malabathron, juniper-berries, etc., taken with diluted wine.
For a boxer as medical writer, cf. M or T A (M. I), or
perhaps the scholar M. Pomponius Porcellus (Suet., Gram. 22.3).
Fabricius (1726) 161.
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Flauius Clemens (30 BCE – 90 CE)
A P. in G, CMGen 7.12 (13.1026–1027 K.), records Flauius
Clemens’ ointment for relief of gout in hand or foot, re-compounded by V
P. The non-Republican cognomen (see also S C) is first attested
in the Augustan period: PIR2 C-1134, I-270; CIL II^2 .5.106 (Voltinia); and RE S.9 (1962)
1856 (#5): L. Volusenus.
FLAUIUS