Helenos (before ca 950 CE)
Author of a recipe for ointment for cysts in horses preserved in the B recension of the
veterinary compilation Hippiatrika (Hippiatrica Berolinensia 77.14). Helenos is described in the
lemma as hippiatros, a horse doctor.
McCabe (2007).
Anne McCabe
He ̄liade ̄s (250 BCE – 540 CE)
A A 7.114 (CMG 8.2, pp. 385–386), records his collyrium for leuko ̄mata,
composed of various minerals, ground cuttlebone, flax-seed, and the Egyptian incense
kommi. Listed after O, and before P C, so perhaps ca
380 – 440 CE.
Fabricius (1726) 175.
PTK
Heliko ̄n of Kuzikos (375 – 350 BCE)
Follower of E and of students of Isokrate ̄s and B, as well as an associate of
P ( pseudo-Plato, Epistle 13). He predicted a partial solar eclipse in Surakousai while
there with Plato, for which the tyrant Dionusios gave him a talent (P Dion 19.6),
perhaps 12 May 361 BCE (or 29 Feb. 357 BCE), and may have contributed a solution to the
problem of duplicating a cube (Plutarch De genio Socratis 579C). The former is probably
either fable or fortune; as to the latter, even the speaker in the dialogue is uncertain.
Lasserre (1987) 139–133, 347–352, 573–576.
Henry Mendell
He ̄liodo ̄ros (Stoic) (10 – 50 CE)
Wrote a commentary on A (FGrHist 1026 T19b), entirely lost, and informed against
his pupil L. Iunius Silanus ( Juv. 1.34).
DPA 3 (2000) 532, M. Ducos.
PTK
He ̄liodo ̄ros (Astrol.) (350 – 370 CE)
“Horoscope Reader” (fatorum per genituras interpretes), instrumental in trials for treason and
magic at Antioch under Valens. The courtier Fortunatianus accused He ̄liodo ̄ros, with
Palladius, of attempting to poison him. Palladius lodged the more serious counter-charge
that ex-governor Fistudius secretly employed divination to ascertain Valens’ successor.
He ̄liodo ̄ros, coddled and employed at court to reveal what he knew or had fabricated
regarding plots against Valens, accused many nobles of treason (Ammianus Marecllinus
29.1.5, 2.6, 2.13), and died mysteriously in 372 (incertum morbo an quadam excogitata ui:
Ammianus Marcellinus 29.2.13).
RE 8.1 (1912) 42 (#19), Fr. Boll; CCAG 1 (1898) 57.
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