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252 – 255; J. Bertier, “Reflets et inflexions des tendances théoriques de la médecine des enfants dans

l’Oribase latin,” in Mudry and Pigeaud (1991) 269–283.

John Scarborough

Orestinos (100 – 50 BCE)

H  T, in G CMLoc 1.1 (12.402–403 K.), records his three remed-
ies for baldness, compounded, e.g., from sympathetically magical ingredients including
bear hair, maidenhair, reed roots, fig leaves, in equal amounts, all singed, mixed with cedar-
resin and bear-fat, heated in a vapor-bath, applied daily. Attested as a cognomen from the
1st c. BCE (Solin 2003: 1.552), this rare diminutive derives from the infrequently attested
Oreste ̄s.

RE 18.1 (1939) 1017, H. Diller.
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Orfitus (10 BCE – 90 CE)

A P., in G CMGen 7.12 (13.1029–1030 K.), records the akopon
prepared by (of for) Orfitus, very similar in composition and use to I S’. The
non-Republican cognomen is first attested in the Augustan era (P 7.39 = PIR2 O-139);
cf. also PIR2 P-18 (Paccius), and perhaps LGPN 1.354, Orphete ̄s of Kure ̄ne ̄.

PIR2 O-143 (suggesting identification with C-1448, cos. 178 CE).
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O ̄rigeneia (150 BCE – 90 CE)

A P., in G CMLoc, quotes three of her remedies: throat lozenge
(boiled licorice, myrrh, saffron, roasted nettle- and flax-seed, in honey), 7.2 (13.58 K.);
for blood-spitting (phthisis): gentian (cf. G), licorice, myrrh, saffron, etc., 7.3
(13.85 K.); and two versions of a stomach-remedy involving henbane, 8.3 (13.143– 144
K.). This feminine form of O ̄rigene ̄s seems otherwise unattested (LGPN), but cf. E.

Fabricius (1726) 354; Parker (1997) 145 (#51).
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O ̄rio ̄n of Bithunia (250 BCE – 80 CE)

Cited as a hairdresser; four recipes are known: A gives his multi-ingredient
aromatic and greasy akopon including almond oil, beeswax, lanolin, olive oil, terebinth,
etc. (G, CMGen 7.13 [13.1038 K.]); A P. records two sciatica remed-
ies (Gale ̄n, CMLoc 9.3 [13.260 K.)]), ammo ̄niakon incense, laurel, red natron, etc.; and
A  A (giving the ethnic) reports a remedy for dropsy and splenetic disorders,
which looks very like a compaction of the first half of the first sciatica remedy with the
second half of the second: 10.22 (p. 590 Cornarius). For the rare name, cf. LGPN 1.488,
3A.481–482, 4.360.

Fabricius (1726) 354.
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