RE 14.2 (1930) 1840–1848, P. Wessner; P. Hadot, Porphyre et Victorinus 2 vv. (1968); idem, Marius Victorinus.
Recherches sur sa vie et ses oeuvres (1971); OCD3 1597 – 1598, S. Hornblower; BNP 8 (2006) 371– 372
(#II.21), Chr. Markschies.
George Karamanolis
Markianos (before 11th c.)
The 11th c. MS of Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana 75.3, probably of Italian
origin (Calabria-Campania), contains several medical texts of a practical nature, among
which is Markianos’ compound Medicine to Relax Nerves. Markianos is identified as Rhakendutes
(wearer of rags), an adjective seemingly referring to monastic status (an homonymous
commissioner, who owned the late 13th c. codex of Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana,
graecus 294 [coll. 288], is there qualified as a physician by the copyist Theophilos Rhakendutes:
but this later Markianos must be distinct). Markianos’ recipe is added to the last folio of the
manuscript, probably by one of the owners and also users of the manuscript: this might
suggest a south-Italian provenance for Markianos.
Diels 2 (1907) 61; E. Trapp, ed., Prosopographische Lexicon der Palaiologenzeit, fasc. 7 (1985) 16985; Ieraci
Bio (1989) 169–170, 190, 235, 237, 239.
Alain Touwaide
Markio ̄n of Smurna (30 BCE – 77 CE)
Wrote on the virtues of simples, cited after A and before A as a foreign
authority on drugs obtained from animals (P 1.ind.28). Pliny reports his observation
that sea scolopendrae burst if spat upon (28.38: see also O and S). Unattested
before the 1st c. CE (LGPN 1.298: cf. Markios, 2nd–3rd cc. CE: LGPN 2.298, 3A.288–289,
3B.270, 4.222), Markio ̄n might be a Romano-Greek name postdating the battle of Actium.
Fabricius (1726) 302.
GLIM
Marpe ̄ssos (300 BCE – 500 CE)
Wrote a work on Kolkhis, cited by the R C, 4.4, as MARPESIVS
(cf. P). The name when personal is otherwise attested solely as feminine:
Pausanias 4.2.7, 5.18.2, 8.47.2; O 1.15.4–5; Pape-Benseler s.v. Marpe ̄ss-.
J. Schnetz, SBAW (1942), # 6, pp. 58–59, 61–62.
PTK
Marsinus of Thrake ̄ (500 – 565 CE)
According to A T (1.565 Puschm.), giving a series of recipes he
himself collected, Marsinus prescribed for epilepsy seven doses of the ashes of a rag blood-
ied by an executed man, taken in wine. For the rare Latin name cf. Schulze (1904/1966)
189; or perhaps emend to Arsinoë (see A) or M.
Fabricius (1726) 322.
PTK
M ⇒ G
MARKIANOS