and procreation were not rational faculties but sensory faculties shared by all animals
(-G H. P. 24 = Diels 1879: 615).
GGP 4.2 (1994) 661–662, P. Steinmetz; ECP 349, T. Dorandi; DPA 4 (2005) 538–542, R. Goulet.
PTK and GLIM
Mne ̄side ̄mos (200 – 120 BCE)
D, MM 4.64.6, cites E, D C, and A,
(all ca 250 – 200 BCE), on the use of the opium-poppy, after whom Mne ̄side ̄mos restricted it
to sleeping-draughts. The name is attested up through the mid-2nd c. BCE (LGPN).
RE 15.2 (1932) 2275 (#2), K. Deichgräber.
PTK
Mne ̄side ̄s (300 BCE – 77 CE)
Cited as a foreign authority on scents from trees (P 1.ind.12–13), an expert on medi-
cines from botanics (20–27), and an expert on metals (33–35). Pliny cites only his opinion
that henbane seed is the best preservative of opium (20.203). Mne ̄side ̄s may be corrupted
from Mne ̄iside ̄s (Athens, 3rd c. BCE), Mne ̄siade ̄s (cited eight times at Athens, 6th–3rd
cc. BCE: LGPN 2.316, and four times at De ̄los, late 3rd c. BCE: LGPN 1.317), or Mnasiade ̄s:
(3rd–2nd cc. BCE: 3A.303, 3B.288). Our author is possibly identifiable with M,
who wrote on opium preparation.
RE 15.2 (1932) 2275, K. Deichgräber.
GLIM
Mne ̄simakhos of Phase ̄lis (400 – 200 BCE)
Composed a work on Skuthia, which recorded myths about the north, and assigned the
region to Europe; the few fragments are preserved in the scholia to Apollo ̄nios Rhodios.
FGrHist 841; BNP 9 (2006) 101 (#2), M. Baumbach.
PTK
Mne ̄sitheos of Athens (370 – 330 BCE)
Greek physician, mentioned, together with D, in an Athenian votive inscription
dedicated to Askle ̄pios (350 BCE: IG II^2 1449: citing either our physicians or their families),
and quoted in Alexis’ comedy Foster Brothers (370– 280 BCE: fr. 219 PCG = Ath., Deipn. 10
[419b]). Mne ̄sitheos is usually included among the dogmatic physicians with D
(whom he postdates: G, 17B.608 K). Pausanias mentions his grave in Athens, not far
from the Ke ̄phisos, near the altar of Zeus Meilikhios (1.37.4).
Mne ̄sitheos followed, but also innovated, “Hippokratic” humoral etiology and developed
the difference between humors (khumoi) and savors (khuloi: frr. 12 – 15). He approved the
theory of the innate heat and pneuma and tried to systematize his medical theories using
the diairetical Platonic method. Much interested in dietetics, he said that health is main-
tained through similes and disease is cured by opposites (fr.11). He treated specialized
subjects: his Letter to Lukiskos (an Athenian archon of 344/343 BCE), devoted to infants’ care,
seems a polemical answer to P’s regimen of children (Laws, VII). His Letter on Tippling
MNE ̄SIDE ̄MOS