Lusimakhos (325 – 90 BCE)
Author of a treatise on agriculture excerpted by C D (V, RR 1.1.8–10,
cf. C, 1.1.11); to judge from P’s index, it discussed cereals, livestock, poultry,
viticulture, and arboriculture (1.ind.8, 10, 14–15, 17–18). There is no reason to identify him
with the Lusimakhos of Pliny 25.72, pace Gudeman.
RE 14.1 (1928) 32 (#19), A. Gudeman.
Philip Thibodeau
Lusimakhos of Ko ̄s (ca 280 BCE – 60 CE)
A doctor who wrote commentaries on the H C. One work in 20 books
dealt with obscure Hippocratic terminology, another in three books attacked K
H, and one in four books attacked a certain De ̄me ̄trios (E Pr.,
B-8, T-13 [pp. 5, 28, 85 Nachm.]; cf. Schol. Nic. Alex. 376) – see S. If this
De ̄me ̄trios is identical to the Epicurean D L (so Kind and Nutton),
Lusimakhos will date ca 100 BCE; if to another, e.g. D A, he may be
earlier.
RE 14.1 (1928) 32 (#19), A. Gudeman, and 39 (#21), F.E. Kind and W. Kroll; BNP 8 (2006) 42 (#7),
V. Nutton.
Philip Thibodeau
Lusimakhos of Macedon (ca 335 – 281 BCE)
Born ca 360, officer of Alexander the Great and later diadoch king of Thrake ̄ and Asia
Minor. P (25.71–72) seems to regard him as the discoverer of a willow-like shrub called
lusimakhia, whose therapeutic powers were praised by E (Pliny ibid.; cf. 25.100,
26.131, 141, 147, G Simpl. Med. 8.21 [12.64 K.], D 4.85).
RE 14.1 (1928) 39 (#21) W. Kroll; OCD3 902, A.B. Bosworth.
Philip Thibodeau
LUSIMAKHOS