Makhairio ̄n (100 BCE – 110 CE)
K H, in G, CMGen 5.3 (13.796–797 K.), cites his terebinth-
based wound plaster, good enough even for hudrophobia, containing birthwort, gal-
banum, myrrh, opopanax, etc. (cf. A A 15.13 [Zervos 1909: 41]), which
Aëtios 10.11 ( p. 579 Cornarius) prescribes for the spleen, and P A 7.17.67
(CMG 9.2, p. 364) for sciatica; Paulos also prescribes other remedies from Makhairio ̄n,
sufficiently familiar to omit ingredients: 3.49.2, 4.19.2, 4.48.2 (CMG 9.1, pp. 259, 339, 369),
cf. Aëtios 12.41 ( p. 672 Cornarius). Gale ̄n cites Makhairio ̄n’s plaster, plus E’ and
I’, as exemplary, Meth. Med. ad Glauk. 2.10 (11.126 K.), 2.11 ( p. 138), and CMGen 2.5
(13.499 K.).
Fabricius (1726) 312–313.
PTK
M- ⇒ P T
Mallius Theodorus of Milan (385 – 395 CE)
Christian of humble origin whose family included a brother Lampadius (PLRE 1 [1971]
493, #3) and a son Theodorus. He rose from advocate to a series of offices ca 376 – 382 CE,
after which he retired for about a decade. Under Stilicho he returned to political service, as
praefectus praetorio of Illyria, Italy, and Africa, and was consul posterior factus in 399, with
Eutropius, after whose overthrow he remained sole consul. During his midlife retirement,
he wrote several works, including a philosophical treatise (entirely lost), which according
to C, Panegyric on Theodorus 67 – 112, illuminated the obscure tenets of Greek
cosmology as taught by K, C, D, P, and
others, explaining their theories on elements, the motions of the stars and planets, the lunar
cause of tides, and meteorology including comets.
PLRE 1 (1971) 900–902.
PTK
Mamerkos (of Italy) (600 – 560 BCE)
Brother of the poet Ste ̄sikhoros, cited variously as Mamerkos (H DK B12 = P
In Eucl. p. 65.12 Fr.), Mamertinos (Souda Sigma-1095), or Mamertios ( pseudo-H, Def.
136.1). The name strongly suggests Italian lineage, and Ste ̄sikhoros’ family plausibly hailed
from Lokroi or its colonies. Mamerkos studied geometry and influenced Hippias.
RE 14.1 (1928) 950–951 (#1), W.A. Oldfather; Morrow (1970) 52.
PTK and GLIM
Mamilius Sura (55 BCE?)
Agricultural author whom P (18.143) cites for the view that ocinum is the name for
a mixture of fava-bean and vetch-seeds sown to make cattle-fodder. Pliny lists him between
C and V, and elsewhere describes as “ancient” those who use the term ocinum
(17.198). Mamilius’ work apparently discussed cereals, livestock, fowl, viticulture, arbori-
culture, beekeeping, and garden plants (1.ind.8, 10–11, 17–19). Since the name is rare
MAKHAIRIO ̄N