was noted, moreover, for his excellent dietetics
and regimen (Gale ̄n, CMGen 2.1 [13.462 K.]).
Mantias, however, did not compose books on
pharmacology in the manner of D-
: Mantias’ “drug books” focused on single
diseases and the compounds employed to treat
them, e.g. the “Attalike ̄” with its 11 ingredients
including saffron, spikenard, henbane seeds,
aloe-latex, pomegranate flowers, tragacanth-
gum (Astralagus spp.), “white” pepper, acacia-
gum, Pontic rhubarb, and one cooked Syrian
pomegranate – all mixed with rose oil and dry
wine, then boiled and, when cooled, fashioned
into trokhiskoi. As Gale ̄n/A
P says, there is no better astringent
purge. The “Attalike ̄” may have been one of
the recipes in Mantias’ Dunameis. Another tract
by Mantias perhaps carried the title Druggist or
In the Physician’s Office (frr. 15 – 16 von Staden),
and it too contained prescriptions for com-
pounds. There are traces of writings on gynecology, including the infamous gynecological
ailment known as “uterine suffocation,” preserved by S, Gyn. 3.4.29 (CMG 4, pp.
109 – 113; CUF v. 3, pp. 30–31; fr.11 von Staden), and on afterbirth expulsion, ibid. 4.14.5
(=1.71.5) (CMG 4, p. 145; CUF v. 2, p. 11; fr.12 von Staden).
RE 14.1 (1928) 1257, F.E. Kind; von Staden (1989) 515–518.
John Scarborough
Marcellinus (Pharm.) (30 BCE – 80 CE)
A, in G CMLoc 7.5 (13.90 K.), records his anodyne, based on henbane
and poppy-juice, also containing amo ̄mon, anise, myrrh, celery, dried roses, and saffron,
ground in water and taken at bedtime. A T (2.357 Puschm.) appears
to mention this Marcellinus. Perhaps identical to M (P.).
RE 14.2 (1930) 1489 (#53), F.E. Kind.
PTK
Marcellinus (Med.) (140 – 160 CE?)
Four MSS attest a Greek On Pulses by an otherwise unknown Marcellinus, whose floruit seems
to be some time in the middle of the 2nd c. CE (Schöne 450). In 1895, Olivieri reported
on a 15th c. MS (Codex gr. Bononiensis bibl. Univ. 3632) presenting two series of portraits
of physicians, accompanied by their names; among those in the second set (f. 213) appears
a “Markele ̄nos,” presumed by Schöne to be “Markellinos,” the author of this On Pulses.
Seven “pulse lore” writings are known in the Gale ̄nic corpus, three more ( probably spuri-
ous) are in Kühn, v.19 (cf. -G, D P); the Daremberg-Ruelle edition
of R E (1879) contains a Greek account believed to be a pseudo-Rufus, and
the Anecdota Græca et Græcolatina (ed. V. Rose, 2 [1870] 263–266 and 275–280) includes
Mantias (Vind. Med. Gr. l, f.2V) © Österreich-
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MARCELLINUS (PHARM.)