Phil. Hist. 84A-D, pp. 206–208 Athan.). He ̄sukhios scorned the physicians at Constantinople
(121), prescribed purges, cold baths, and strict diets, avoiding surgery, phlebotomy, and
cautery (122) – apparently a Pythagoreanizing doctor.
RE 8.2 (1913) 1317 (#6), O. Seeck; PLRE 2 (1980) 554 (#8).
GLIM
H- ⇒ H-
Hierax of The ̄bai (250 BCE – 25 CE)
A P., in G CMLoc 4.8 (12.775–776 K.), records Hierax’ treatments
for trachoma, comprised of misu, saffron, opium, “hematite,” roasted copper, myrrh, and
gum applied in very sour vinegar. C records a simpler “efficacious” treatment, com-
pounded of myrrh, ammo ̄niakon incense, and verdigris filings (6.6.28). Designating
Hierax as “Theban,” Askle ̄piade ̄s also recounts his remedy efficacious against various skin
ailments including pimples, night pustules, nasal sores, chapping, and scars: containing
psimuthion, litharge, alum, halikababon (“winter cherry”), khalkanthon, Sino ̄pian
earth, mixed with vinegar (CMGen 5.11 [13.829 K.], cf. CMLoc 1.8 [12.489 K.] on skin
diseases). The “Theban” to whom is attributed a medicament compounded of litharge,
old olive oil, khalkanthon, white chameleon, birthwort, galbanum, and frankincense (by
Askle ̄piade ̄s Pharm. in G CMGen 4.13 [13.739 K.]) may be our pharmacologist. The
name hierax, a homonym of both a hawk and a type of bandage (cf. hierakion: 12.783 K.), is
attested from the 4th c. BCE to the 3rd c. CE (LGPN).
RE 8.2 (1913) 1411 (#12), H. Gossen.
GLIM
Hierios (of Alexandria?) (ca 285 – 362 CE)
Philosopher and friend of P, who sought Pappos’ opinion regarding a “plane”
method devised by an unnamed geometer to solve the problem of the two mean propor-
tionals between two straight lines (Pappos, Coll. 3.43.3). Probably identifiable with the
homonymous student of I and teacher of M (cf. A
A, In Prior Analytics, CAG 4.6 [1899] 31), and the philosopher mentioned by
L (Ode 14.7, 32, 34): Jones 1986: 4, n. 9.
RE 8.2 (1913) 1458–1459 (#8–9), K. Praechter; Netz (1997) #21.
GLIM
Hierokle ̄s (Geog.) (ca 450 – 535 CE)
Author of the Sunekde ̄mos, a list of 64 provinces (eparkhiai) and 923 cities belonging to the
Eastern Empire in the early Byzantine era. The names are arranged geographically, and the
text reflects errors and lacunae. The provincial organization strongly suggests a date before
the reforms of Justinian I in 535/536: only one of the 27 cities renamed Ioustinianoupolis or
Ioustiniana in the emperor’s honor is here mentioned. However, the work, seemingly a revi-
sion of a secular administrative document from the mid 5th c., includes much information
from the time of Theodosius II (408–450). The work, comparable with G
C’ Descriptio orbis romani, was one of the most important sources for Constantine VII
Pophurogenne ̄tos’ 10th c. De thematibus.
HIERAX OF THE ̄BAI