Ed.: FGrHist 477; PGR 29 – 30.
RE 18.3 (1949) 1137–1166 (§7, 1143), K. Ziegler; Giannini (1964) 116–117; S. Jackson, Myrsilus of
Methymna: Hellenistic Paradoxographer (1995); BNP 9 (2006) 422 (#2), K. Meister.
Jan Bollansée, Karen Haegemans, and Guido Schepens
M ⇒ A
Muscio/Mustio (440 – 460 CE)
Otherwise unknown physician, resident in Roman north Africa; extant is an extended
Latin catechism (viz. “question-and-answer” format) on women’s diseases and midwifery
titled Gynaecia or De muliebribus passionibus, generally based on the Gynecology of S
E. The MSS couple this work with a Latin Genesia, attributed to a “Kleopatra,”
probably of the 4th or 5th c. The author had access to texts varying from those cited by
C A and other, near-contemporary, medical writers in north Africa, illus-
trated by the mention of S as physician to K VII (26.78: Apollonius et
Sostratus et Filoxenus adseuerant... [ed. Rose, p. 106]). Perhaps circulating was the lost “medical
journal” of So ̄stratos, a physician attending Kleopatra in 30 BCE, and witness to the famous
suicide. Later copyists fused some of Mustio with Gynaeciae produced by Caelius Aurelianus
and Kleopatra, as well as several other writers on surgery and gynecology, in a 13th c. MS
luckily recovered in 1948 through a Zurich antiquities sale catalogue.
Ed.: V. Rose, Sorani Gynaeciorum vetus translatio Latina nunc primum edita cum additis Graeci textus reliquiis a
Dietzio repertis atque ad ipsum Codicem Parisiensem (1882) 3–167; M.F. Drabkin and I.E. Drabkin, Caelius
Aurelianus Gynaecia. Fragments of a Latin Version of Soranus’ Gynaecia from a Thirteenth Century Manuscript
= BHM S.13 (1951).
J. Ilberg, Die Überlieferung der Gynäkologie des Soranos von Ephesos (1910); J. Medert, Quaestiones criticae
et grammaticae ad Gynaecia Mustionis pertinentes (1911); Önnerfors (1993) 331–336.
John Scarborough
MUSCIO/MUSTIO