Maximianus (ca 300 – 565 CE)
A T (2.57 Puschm.) records his collyrium, composed of one part
each of the two collyria of H, and two parts of the “swan” collyrium. Surely
distinct from the poet, PLRE 2 (1980) 739–740.
Fabricius (1726) 327.
PTK
Maximinus (ca 350 – 550 CE?)
Wrote in Latin a geographical work that treated at least Illyria and Dalmatia, and was
followed by the R C 4.15–16. Cf. M and P.
J. Schnetz, SBAW (1942), # 6, pp. 80–81.
PTK
Maximus (300 – 400 CE?)
Wrote an astrological poem in Greek hexameters entitled Peri Katarkho ̄n, treating katarkhic
astrology but surviving incomplete (a later prose version of the entire poem is extant). The
Souda (M-174), with what authority one cannot say, identifies the author of Peri Katarkho ̄n as
the philosopher Maximus who taught the emperor Julian, and says that he was from either
E ̄peiros or Buzantion.
Ed.: A. Ludwich, Maximi et Ammonis carminum de actionum auspiciis reliquiae (1877).
BNP 8 (2006) 517 (#2), W. Hübner.
Alexander Jones
Me ̄deios (320 – 270 BCE)
Maternal uncle of E and student of K K (II), who like
his teacher rejected phlebotomy (G, On Venesection, Against Erasistratos 2 [11.196–197 K.
= p. 43 Brain]; Treatment by Venesection 2 [11.252–253 K. = p. 68 Brain]). He appears to have
been a grandson of A and to have attended T in his last illness:
S E Math. 1.258 (with Kroll 1932), D L 5.53, 72. Gale ̄n
refers to him in a list of early anatomists: In Hipp. Nat. Hom. (CMG 5.9.1, pp. 69–70). C
5.18.11 preserves the recipe of his ointment of alum, copper-flakes, roasted lead, and
panax in beeswax, and P (who cites him as an authority, 1.ind. 20 – 27) his prescription
of radishes for blood-spitting and to promote lactation, 20.27.
RE 15.1 (1931) 106 (#5), 15.2 (1932) 1482–1483 (#26), W. Kroll; Brain (1986).
PTK
Medicina Plinii (200 – 240 CE)
By the first decades of the 3rd c. CE, an unknown student of P had extracted a
compilation of the “medical sections” of the Natural History, especially Books 20–32, on
pharmaceuticals derived from plants and animals. Although philologists debate when auctor
ignotus assembled the collection of extracts, the borrowings in S’ Liber medicinalis
seem decisive (Önnerfors [1963] esp. 62–83), although firm proof remains elusive. In his
edition, Önnerfors’ earliest MS is the Codex Sangallensis 752 (9th c.), and his proposed
MAXIMIANUS