( probably using data from D: Wellmann 1898 and ed. Dioskouride ̄s, v.3,
pp. 327–329), not listed by the Souda. Gale ̄n complains that Pamphilos was inclined to old
wives’ tales and foolish Egyptian sorcery, but confesses he offers useful data, including
Egyptian names of herbs, and describes him as a grammarian writing without autopsy
(i.e., not an herbalist), and inferior to K, H T, S
N, and Dioskouride ̄s. Nevertheless, A, in Gale ̄n CMLoc 7.3 (13.68) cites
his febrifuge: cardamom, saffron, euphorbia, henbane, Illyrian iris, kostos, myrrh,
poppy-juice, white pepper, and sulfur, in honey. A P., in Gale ̄n CMGen
1.17 (13.446–447 K.) + 2.12 (13.527), records the cicatrizing plaster named for him. K,
in Gale ̄n CMLoc 5.3 (12.839–842) = A A 8.16 (CMG 8.2, pp. 426–428),
describes him as profitably curing leikhe ̄n at Rome.
Wellmann (1898); Idem (1916); RE 18.3 (1949) 334–336 (#24), W. Stegemann, 336–349 (#25),
C. Wendel, and 350–351 (#28), H. Diller; BNP 10 (2007) 413–414 (#6), R. Tosi; Ullmann (1972)
394; van der Eijk (2000–2001) fr.145.
PTK
Pamphilos of Be ̄rutos (270 – 309 CE)
Christian bishop of Caesarea in Palestine, teacher of E C, and exe-
cuted under Galerius and Licinius. While imprisoned he wrote a five-volume defense of the
Christian Platonist Origen (d. ca 250 CE), of which the first volume survives in a Latin
rendition. During his tenure as bishop (from ca 300), he created a vast Christian library.
A A 16.122 (Zervos 1901: 171) appears to credit him with a complex gyneco-
logical fumigation, containing roses, plus other aromatics such as amo ̄mon, bdellium,
cassia, kostos, malabathron, spikenard, and storax; apparently confirmed by MS
Bonon. 1808 (15th c.), f. 53: Diels 2 (1907) 76. Perhaps a Byzantine Christian scribe added
episkopos to a citation of P A?
BNP 10 (2007) 413 (#4), Chr. Markschies.
PTK
Panaitios the Younger (135 BCE – 300 CE)
Mathematician and music theorist known only from P’ commentary on
P’s Harmonics. Porphurios provides no biographical information about Panaitios
except to refer to him as “the Younger” (ho neo ̄teros, 65.21 Düring), presumably to distinguish
him from the more famous Stoic philosopher P R. Of his work we
know no more than what is preserved by Porphurios, who quotes briefly from Panaitios’
book On the Ratios and Intervals in Geometry and Music (Peri to ̄n kata geo ̄metrian kai mousike ̄n logo ̄n kai
diaste ̄mato ̄n, 65.21); no other titles survive. A single-sentence paraphrase giving the rationale
for the analysis of musical notes by means of mathematical proportion (88.5–7) appears
to have been drawn from the same work, and three subsequent references (92.20, 92.24,
94.24), almost certainly to the same Panaitios, link him with De ̄me ̄trios on a point of
scientific vocabulary.
The only substantial quotation is the first (65.26–66.15 according to Düring, but probably
extending at least as far as 67.8; Barker translates the passage to 67.10), an argument
intended to prove that the term “semitone” (he ̄mitonion) is an invalid term of reference,
because sense-perception, on the one hand, is not sufficiently accurate to divide musical
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