N ⇒ N A
Nikostratos (Pharm.) (50 – 80 CE)
A in G cites eight of his recipes: gout-ointment, CMGen 7.7 (13.985 K.);
stomach-remedy CMLoc 8.2 (13.139 K.); his “god-like” (isotheos) colic-remedy, including
galbanum, kostos, mandrake, myrrh, pepper, saffron, ibid. 9.4 (13.279–280 K.), cf. 7.3
(13.65–66 K.); his enema derived from M P, ibid. 9.5 (13.299– 300
K.); lanolin and beeswax-based hedrike ̄ including Indian buckthorn, ibid. 9.6 (13.308
K.); his Mithridateion derived from X A, involving galbanum,
kostos, white pepper, saffron, etc., Antid. 2.10 (14.164–165 K.); his hudrophobia-
treatment, of Indian buckthorn, gentian (cf. G), and burnt crabs in honey,
ibid. 2.17 (14.208 K.); and his best antidote, including cinnamon, gentian, ginger, kostos,
licorice, malabathron, long pepper, white pepper, etc., ibid. 2.1 (14.112–114 K.).
Fabricius (1726) 350–351.
PTK
Nikotele ̄s of Kure ̄ne ̄ (240 – 220 BCE)
Writer on conic sections and circles who responded to K’s work (A Conica
4.pr.).
DPA 4 (2005) 702–703, P.P. Fuentes González.
GLIM
N ⇒ I N
Ninuas of Egypt (400 – 300 BCE)
Physician quoted only by the L (9.37), Ninuas distinguished con-
genital and non-congenital diseases: the latter are caused by heat, which, if the nourishment
remains blocked, generates dangerous residues. The theory is actually common in ancient
Egyptian medicine.
BNP 9 (2006) 770 (#2), V. Nutton.
Daniela Manetti
Nonnos (200 – 540 CE)
A A, 7.114 (CMG 8.2, p. 382), records his collyrium for trachoma (roasted
copper, hematite, calamine, opium, etc.), said to be suitable for children.
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PTK
Nonnosos (525 – 540 CE)
Member of a Jewish family of envoys, dispatched on a diplomatic mission to central and
southern Arabia and “Ethiopia” by the emperor Justinian I in 530/531. His grandfather
Euphrasios (in 502) and his father Abram (in 524 and later) performed similar duties. He
wrote an account of the embassy in Greek, now lost but still known to Pho ̄tios in the 9th c.
NIKOSTRATOS (PHARM.)