for the senses” (Opif. 12.3). Nemesios states that all mental faculties lie specifically located in
the three brain ventricles (koiliai tou enkephalou): the intellect (aestimativa or cogitativa) in the
middle ventricle, imagination (phantasia) in the front (= union of the two lateral ventricles,
sometimes plural, e.g., §27), and memory in the posterior (or cerebellum, §§ 30 – 32; A,
de Genesi ad litteram 7.18, where a similar ventricular doctrine appears, also based on observ-
ing brain-lesions in humans). This “Nemesian” theory, perhaps originated by H,
and first detailed by P (M. II) (in A A 6.2 [CMG 8.2,
pp. 125–128]), was widely accepted, translated and reformulated ( Johannes Damascenus,
Meletius, Al-Razi, Avicenna.. .) until the 16th c. (Vesalius).
RE S.7 (1940) 562–566, E. Skard; DSB 10.20–21, C.D. O’Malley; REP 6.763–764, J. Bussanich; DPA 4
(2005) 625–654, M. Chase; BNP 9 (2006) 630–631, L. Brisson.
Arnaud Zucker
Neokleide ̄s (of Athens?) (390 – 350 BCE)
Younger mathematical contemporary of L, A, and T; and
the teacher of L (Proklos, In Eucl. p. 66 Fr.). The name is rare except in Athens (6th–4th
cc. BCE: LGPN 2.328), and possibly indicates an Athenian origin.
RE S.7 (1940) 566–567 (#4), K. von Fritz.
GLIM
Neokle ̄s of Kroto ̄n (300 – 50 BCE)
Aelianus, NA 17.15,records that the doctor Neokle ̄s claimed toads had two livers, one
poisonous, one healthful (Wellmann assigned the fragment to D K).
Athe ̄naios, Deipn. 2 (57f ), records that Neokle ̄s of Kroto ̄n claimed the Moon was inhabited
(and that Helen’s egg came thence); Bicknell thus assigns the remark in Schol. Ap. Rhod. 1.498
about the Nemean lion being from the Moon to Neokle ̄s; cf. also E DK B2.
RE 16.2 (1935) 2422 (#7), K. Deichgräber; P.J. Bicknell, “Lunar Eclipses and Selenites,” Apeiron 1.2
(1967) 16–21.
PTK
Neoptolemos (325 – 25 BCE)
Greek author of a treatise on beekeeping (Melittourgika) of which P knew (1.ind.11), as
in all likelihood did I H (cf. A S).
RE 16.2 (1935) 2470 (#12), W. Kroll.
Philip Thibodeau
Nepho ̄n (unknown date)
Source of a remedy for arthritic glanders cited by T, preserved in the
Hippiatrika (Hippiatrica Parisina 34 – 35 = Hippiatrica Berolinensia 2.23–34). The passage is
preserved in the Arabic translation of Theomne ̄stos.
Hoyland (2004) 162; McCabe (2007) 201.
Anne McCabe
NEPHO ̄N