the De pulsibus and Peri sfigmon by a pseudo-S. Although all these works generally
overlap one another, Marcellinus’ version is a valuable “history” of pulse-lore, running from
H (13 [463 Schöne]) to the middle of the 2nd c. Featured are, of course, the
famous names for pulses coined by H and E, e.g. tis ho dorkadizo ̄n
sphugmos (31 [Schöne 468–469]), tis ho murme ̄kizo ̄n sphugmos (32 [Schöne 469]), and tis ho
sko ̄le ̄kizo ̄n sphugmos (33 [ibid.]).
Ed.: H. Schöne, “Markellinos’ Pulslehre. Ein griechisches Anekdoton,” in [no ed.] Festschrift zur 49.
Versammlung Deutscher Philologen und Schulmänner in Basel im Jahre 1907 (1907) 448–472.
John Scarborough
Marcellus (Geog.) (ca 300 – 400 CE?)
Wrote an Aithiopika cited by P In Tim. 1.177, 1.181, for Atlantis, and a work on
Illyria and Dalmatia cited by the R C 4.15–16.
BNP 8 (2006) 298 (#3), P.L. Schmidt
PTK
Marcellus (Mech.) (350 – 450 CE?)
Assisted Q in writing a Me ̄khanike ̄, according to Leo ̄n, Anth. Gr. 9.200.
Netz (1997) #132.
GLIM
Marcellus (Pharm.) (50 – 70 CE)
Compounded Nero’s digestif, according to M B 20.84 (CML 5,
pp. 349–350), and perhaps the wound-cream attributed to Nero, containing litharge, myrrh,
opopanax, and psimuthion: P A 7.17.46 (CMG 9.2, p. 359). Nero’s
Marcellus also prescribed, as a digestif and febrifuge, a cathartic salt (ammi, anise, celery-
seed, ginger, malabathron, marjoram, parsley, pepper, silphium, thyme, and seeds of
elecampane and nasturcium, plus sal ammoniac and salt, all finely ground: Marcellus 30.51
[CML 5, pp. 532–534]), and a skin treatment of pumice, psimuthion, and rose oil in butter,
goat-fat, and beeswax: Paulos 4.11.2 (CMG 9.1, p. 331). The Gale ̄nic Euporista 2.21 (14.459
K.) cites Marcellus for a spleen remedy, of cardamom in squill-vinegar taken while fasting.
Fabricius (1726) 315.
PTK
Marcellus of Bordeaux, “Empiricus” (375 – 425 CE)
Life: Wrote the treatise De medicamentis (“On medicaments”) after the birth (401) or maybe after
the accession (408) of Theodosius II: in the inscriptio of his dedicatory epistle he mentions
Theodosius I (under whom he was chief of the chancellery, magister officiorum) as Theodosius
senior. This is confirmed by Codex Theodosianus (16.5.29; 6.29.8 = Cod. Iustin. 12.22.4), whence
it appears that he was magister officiorum in 394–395 (i.e., under Arcadius, as confirmed by the
Souda M-203). The botanical nomenclature and the language of his work prove that he lived
in Gaul; Bordeaux as his possible place of origin is suggested by the fact that he mentions as
his elder fellow-citizens S, E and I A (pr.2). He was
MARCELLUS OF BORDEAUX, “EMPIRICUS”