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Abas (or Aias) (500 – 330 BCE)
Greek physician, quoted only by the L (8.45–9.4), who attributes
diseases to discharges from the head through nose, ears, eyes and mouth. Health or disease
depends on the quantity of these flows. Cf. H’ Loc. hom. 1.10 (6.276 Littré);
Gland. 11 (8.564 Littré); Morb. sacr. 3.17 (6.366 Littré).
RE S.1 (1903) 1–2 (#12), M. Wellmann; S.3 (1918) 13, H. Gossen; H. Grensemann, Die hippokratische
Schrift “Über die heilige Krankheit” (1968) 30–31; BNP 1 (2002) 6, V. Nutton.
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Abaskantos of Lugdunum (10 BCE – 80 CE)
A approves his remedy for phthisis, composed of birthwort, saffron,
euphorbia (cf. I), gentian, henbane, mandrake, myrrh, opium, etc.: G, CMLoc
7.2 (13.71 K.); he again cites Abaskantos for a colic remedy, involving Indian nard, myrrh,
opium, pepper, etc. in boiled wine, ibid. 9.4 (13.278). A P., in Gale ̄n Antid.
2.12 (14.177 K.), cites him (with ethnic) for an antidote: castoreum, saffron, Illyrian iris,
myrrh, opium, white pepper, germander, wild staphis, etc., in wine. Andromakhos (13.71)
gives him an apparently Roman nomen, ΚΛΗΤΙΟΣ, which may represent GLITIVS: cf.
P 7.39, Schulze (1904/1966) 232, n. 2, and RE S.3 (1918) 790–791 (#4).
RE 1.1 (1893) 20 (#8), M. Wellmann.
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Abdaraxos (of Cyprus?) (330 – 25 BCE)
Writer on mechanics resident in Alexandria, listed by P. Berol. P-13044, col.8. The name is
otherwise unattested, but compare Abdimilkos (4th c. BCE) and Abdubalos (5th c. BCE),
both of Cyprus, LGPN 1.1: if Semitic, the prefix Abd- corresponds to -doulos (Sala 1974:
1 – 3). Perhaps the name derives from Abde ̄ra, cf. Abde ̄rio ̄n of Thrake ̄ (bis, 4th and 3rd c.
BCE) as well as Abdarakos of Tanais (3rd c. CE), LGPN 4.1.
Diels (1920) 30, n.1.
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