Grattius Faliscus (30 BCE – 8 CE)
Author of a Cynegeticon in 541 hexameters. Mentioned in O, who might have considered
the poet among his friends (Ex Ponto 4.16.34: aptaque uenanti Grattius arma daret – where Grattius
is Bücheler’s correction of gratius or gracius). If Bücheler’s conjecture is correct, we can fix
the poem’s terminus post quem at about 30 BCE and the terminus ante quem at 8 CE (the date of
Ovid’s death). This range is further supported by Grattius’ deep knowledge of V.
After a proem (1–23), the poet writes about hunters’ equipment: nets, spears, dogs and
horses (24–541). Subjects sometimes alternate with brief narratives: the myths of the
huntsmen Derkulos (95–125) and Hagno ̄n (213–252); and digressions: e.g., the harmful
effects of luxury (310–325), the description of a cave at the foot of Aetna (430–460) and
of a sacrifice to Diana (480–496). The final part of the poem is incomplete, probably due
to an accident of transmission. Grattius seems to have influenced M, Calpurnius,
A N, and many others.
C. Formicola, “Rassegna di studi grattiani,” BSL 24 (1994) 155–186; OCD3 647 – 648, A. Schachter; NP
12/2.981–982, C. Schindler.
Claudio Meliadò
Gre ̄gorios (Pharm.) (150 – 500 CE)
Pseudo-A P On Venomous Creatures §40 ( p. 62 Ihm) cites him for a remedy
against lion, leopard, and bear bites. The name was first used by Christians, from ca 150 CE:
LGPN 3A.103 (170 CE; see also 4.83, ca 200 CE); Solin (2003) 2.826–828.
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PTK
Gre ̄gorios (before ca 400 CE)
Author of two remedies for horses preserved in the Hippiatrika as quotations in H:
a remedy for cough (Hippiatrica Parisina 483 = Hippiatrica Berolinensia 22.26) and a trokhiskos
dusenterikos (Hippiatrica Berolinensia 130.183; cf. Hippiatrica Parisina pinax 1219).
McCabe (2007) 227.
Anne McCabe
Gregory of Nazianzos (ca 370 – 389 CE)
Born in Kappadokia around 329/330 in an upper-class Christian family, he studied in
Alexandria and Athens, with Himerios and Prohairesios, along with his friend B
C (So ̄crate ̄s HE 4.26). He become a monk in 361 and bishop of Sasima a decade
later, but remained at Nazianzos until 379 when he was summoned to Constantinople.
Gregory played a major role in the Council of Constantinople in 381, and he became
bishop of the city from 379 to 381, when he composed most of his orations. He was
received as a saint by the Orthodox and Roman churches, and entitled “Theologian”
from 451.
Gregory maintained that the human intellect (nous) was created in accordance with God’s
image but, though master of man, is far from being perfect (Letter 101.43–49). He stressed
the mystery of God and the purity required in order to approach God, being the first to talk
about theo ̄sis (deification). Gregory’s theological and autobiographical verse exhibits
GREGORY OF NAZIANZOS