RE 1.1 (1893) 1063 (#21), M. Wellmann.
GLIM
Aiskhrio ̄n (325 – 90 BCE)
Wrote a work on agriculture possibly treating cereals, livestock, poultry, viticulture, and
arboriculture (cf. P, 1.ind.8, 10, 14–15, 17–18); excerpted by D U
(V, RR 1.1.9; cf. C, 1.1.10).
RE 1.1 (1893) 1064 (#9), E. Oder.
Philip Thibodeau
Aiskhrio ̄n of Pergamon (100 – 150 CE)
Empiricist physician, in old age teacher of G in Pergamon (Simples 12.1.24 [12.356
K.]); perhaps to be identified with the Empiricist teacher mentioned by Gale ̄n in Plen. 9
(7.558 K.). Gale ̄n praises Aiskhrio ̄n for his pharmacological knowledge and especially for a
(magical) remedy for rabid dog-bites based on ash of crayfish; another teacher of Gale ̄n,
P, did not refute but explained the recipe (12.357–359 K.). This remedy is quoted
also by other authors, but without reference to Aiskhrio ̄n; amongst them by the anonymous
author of On Poisonous Animals commonly attributed to A P (which the 16th
c. physician Antonius Possevinus, Bibliotheca selecta [Venetiis 1603] 2.163, attributed to
“Aischrion Empiricus”). Gale ̄n, however, does not refer to any writings by Aiskhrio ̄n, who
could have been a practitioner physician.
Ed.: Deichgräber (1930) 3, 215 (fragment).
RE 1.1 (1893) 1064 (#8), M. Wellmann.
Fabio Stok
Aiskhulide ̄s of Keo ̄s (325 BCE – 200 CE)
Composed a work on agriculture in at least three books; the two fragments describe pears
(Ath., Deipn. 14 [650d]) and sheep (A, HA 16.32) of Keo ̄s.
RE 1.1 (1893) 1064–1065 (#2), E. Oder
Philip Thibodeau
Aiskhulos (430 – 400 BCE)
Student of H K who with his mentor held that comets are planets,
much slower than the sun, which move to the north and south of the tropics and that the tail
arises when the planet is north of the tropic, away from the dry region of the sun, and
results from moisture around the planet that causes reflection from the eye to the sun to the
planet: A, Meteorology 1.6 (342b36–3a20). For Aristotle’s criticisms, cf. ibid. 1.6
(343a20–b7), 1.7 (344b8–17).
DSB 6.416B (s.v. Oinopides), I. Bulmer-Thomas; Wilson (2008).
Henry Mendell
A ⇒ A
AISKHRIO ̄N