actor (Suet. Dom. 3.1; Mart. 11.13.7; Juv. 6.87). The Kosme ̄tika enjoyed a long life, circulating
widely in Byzantine times, with Arabic translations appearing sometime after 850 CE (GAS 3
[1970] 60–61; Ullmann 1972: 69–70).
Gale ̄n also extracts at length Krito ̄n’s pharmacological writings: the Pharmakitis (CMLoc 6.4
[12.883–884 K.]) cited S’s plaster for all sorts of ailments resulting from sexual
overindulgence, and was arranged topographically, by affected body parts (head in Book 1:
CMLoc 2.2 [12.587 K.]), and pharmaceutically, by types of medicines: theriac in Book 3
(Antid. 1.17 [14.103 K.]), and plasters in Book 4 (CMGen 4.6 [13.708–716 K.]). Another
tract, in five books (CMGen 4.6, 5.3, 6.1–2 [13.708–716, 786–801, 859–882 K.]) was entitled
either Peri te ̄s to ̄n pharmako ̄n suntheseo ̄s (Compounding Drugs [13.786 K.]), or Peri to ̄n haplo ̄n
pharmako ̄n (Simples [13.862 K.]).
Krito ̄n accompanied his royal patient on the Dacian campaigns (101–102 and 105– 106
CE), and composed an account of those wars, the Getika, apparently a striking eyewitness
narrative (peculiar words, such as those describing Dacian defenses, Dacian felt-caps, and
arable land, can derive only from an eyewitness: Scarborough 390–393). His medical
vocabulary probably obscured his history for later readers, as suggested by the Souda’s
extracts of weird words; and Lucian may have aimed K at Krito ̄n’s
unfortunate style (Hist. concsr. 16; cf. Baldwin), which doomed the Getika to extinction, once
exploited by Dio Cassius. Krito ̄n may also have participated in Trajan’s Mesopotamian
campaign (115– 117 CE). Some well-informed medical details preserved about Trajan’s
death suggest a witness acquainted with 2nd c. CE prognostics, perhaps again Krito ̄n.
Ed. [Getika]: FGrHist 200.
Wellmann (1895) chs. 3–4 (“Theodorus, Magnus, Herodot, Leonidas”); F.A. Lepper, Trajan’s Parthian
Wa r (1948; repr. 1993) 198–201 [“Trajan’s Health”]; R. Syme, Tacitus (1958) 1.221 [on the Dacian
campaigns]; Fabricius (1972) 190–192; B. Baldwin, Studies in Lucian (1973) 36–40; RE S.14 (1974)
216 – 220, J. Benedum; J.N. Adams, The Latin Sexual Vocabulary (1982) 40–41; Scarborough (1985c);
NP 11.921–922, Alain Touwaide.
John Scarborough and Alain Touwaide
Krito ̄n of Naxos (335 – 250 BCE?)
Wrote an oktaete ̄ris sometimes attributed to E (Souda K-2454); P 18.312
(cf. 1.ind.18) appears to cite him.
RE 11.2 (1922) 1935 (#6), A. Rehm.
PTK
Kronios (130 – 170 CE)
Friend of N (P, de antro Nymph. 21), listed among the neo-Platonic
authors read in P’ school (Porph., Vita Plot. 14), and perhaps identifiable with the
Kronios to whom Lucian dedicates Death of Peregrinus (165 CE). He wrote on the nuptial
number in P, Rep. 546c (asserting that fire is incapable of destroying all matter, evi-
dence for which is the “Carystian” stone, asbestos, and explaining that the male is a myriad
and the female 7500: P, In Remp. 2.22–23 Kroll), and the myth of Er in Plato, Rep.
614 – 621 (declaring that Er was a historical teacher of Z: Proklos, In Remp. 2.110
Kroll). In On Reincarnation (peri paliggenesias), his only titled work, Kronios argued that “souls
always remain rational” (N, Nat. Hom. 2.116–7 M.).
BNP 3 (2003) 958–959 (#1), M. Frede.
PTK and GLIM
KRONIOS