PIR2 F-241.
PTK
T. Flauius Vespasianus (70 – 78 CE)
The Roman emperor “Titus” (reigned 79– 81 CE) is credited by P 2.89 with a work on
the comet of 76 CE, and by G CMLoc 10.3 (13.360 K.), probably from the pharmacist
A, with a recipe for a plaster.
OCD3 1532 – 1533, J.B. Campbell.
PTK
Florentinus (200 – 250 CE)
Author of Geo ̄rgika, a comprehensive work on agriculture, in at least 11 books, the most
influential of its age written in Greek, although only fragments survive, in the G.
Among his sources were the Q. The work mostly conveyed traditional practices
rather than superstitious customs, although innovation, especially through grafting, was of
interest. His homeland is unknown, but he traveled widely: he reports seeing a giraffe at
Rome (Geo ̄pon. 16.22.8) and, in the garden of Marius Maximus, an olive grafted to a vine
and bearing both fruits (9.14.1). His inclusion of therapeutic characteristics of plants
and fruits, not hitherto much addressed by Greek writers, was representative of the age
(cf. G M).
Oder (1890) 83–87; PIR2 P-454a; BNP 5 (2004) 469 (#2), P.L. Schmidt.
Robert H. Rodgers
Florus (20 BCE – 20 CE?)
A P., in G CMLoc 4.7 (12.768–769 K.), records his cure of Antonia,
“almost mutilated by other doctors,” using a collyrium of saffron, henbane, mandrake,
myrrh, opium, roses, etc., in Falernian wine and rainwater; repeated by A A
7.110 (CMG 8.2, p. 376), and mentioned by Hipp. Berol. 62.6 (pp. 254–255 ed. Oder-Hoppe).
Gale ̄n and Aëtios both read “Antonia, of Drusus the mother,” which is incorrect; restore
“Antonia, of Drusus
having fallen out of Askle ̄piade ̄s’ text (gune ̄s te kai Germanikou).
RE 6.2 (1909) 2760 (#1), A. Stein.
PTK
Fonteius Capito (50 – 30 BCE)
Born ca 80 BCE, antiquarian, member of the coterie of N F and V.
Citations of “Fonteius,” “Capito,” and “Fonteius Capito” by I “L” probably
all refer to the same man, M. Antonius’ supporter, pontifex after 44, suffect consul in 33
(Horace Sat. 1.5.32–33; P Ant. 36.1; Weinstock 44). Io ̄anne ̄s cites Fonteius on
astrology, the calendar (the beginning of the day in Babylo ̄n, Umbria, Athens, and Rome:
De Mens. 2.2 [ pp. 18–20 Wu.]; the Earth’s warming in May: ibid. 4.80 [p. 132 Wu.]), and
religion. Io ̄anne ̄s also attributes to Fonteius dire predictions from thunder when the Moon is
in Capricorn, including threats to the pax Romana (De Ost. 39 – 41 [pp. 88–91 Wa.]). Although
geographical references, indicating Egypt as the text’s country of origin, and language
FONTEIUS CAPITO