Ed.: Heitsch (1963–1964) 1.51–54.
RE 18.3 (1949) 615–619 (#5), F. Stoessl; A. Garzya, “Pankrates,” Atti XVII Congresso Internazionale di
Papirologia (1984) 2.319–325; E.L. Bowie, “Greek Poetry on the Antonine Age,” in D.A. Russell,
Antonine Literature (1990) 53–90 at 81–82; BNP 10 (2007) 430–431 (#3), S. Fornaro.
Gianfranco Agosti
Pankrate ̄s of Argos (ca 300 – ca 100 BCE)
Wrote a didactic poem Sea Works, of which only three fragments remain about different
types of fishes (Ath., Deipn. 7 [283a, 305c, 321e]): pompilos called “sacred” fish, the khikle ̄ and
its names, and the salpe ̄ ( Thompson 1947: 208–209, 116–117, 224–225). This Pankrate ̄s
might be the inventor of pancretian meter (Seruius, GL 4.459 Keil). An identification with
the author of Bokkhoreis, a poem about the Egyptian king Bokkhoris, attributed by some to
P A, is possible.
Ed.: Heitsch (1963–1964) 1.54; SH 598 – 603.
RE 18.3 (1949) 612–614 (#3), F. Stoessl; BNP 10 (2007) 430 (#2), S. Fornaro.
Gianfranco Agosti
P ⇒ P
Pantainos (250 BCE – 25 CE)
C 5.18.12 records his recipe for a “dispersing” ointment, similar to M’: quick-
lime, ground mustard, fenugreek, and alum in ox-fat; and A P., in
G CMLoc 7.2 (13.57–58 K.), records his reduction of honey-wine and tallow, seasoned
with rue, for ulcers and infections. (Kühn prints “Peteinos,” cf. Claudius’ wife Petine ̄:
Iosephus, AntJ 20.150, BJ 2.249, Suet. Claud. 26.2–3.)
Fabricius (1726) 357 (s.v. Panthemus), 360 (s.v. Petinus).
PTK
Papias of Laodikeia (300 BCE – 90 CE)
The doctor of “Autolukos” – not the Athenian politicians, since the Asiatic-Greek name
Papias is hardly attested before 300 BCE (LGPN), and no Laodikeia was founded before
300 BCE. Perhaps the astronomer A, or more likely the Rhodian pilot who
went down with his ship at the battle of Khios (P Book 16, fr.5.1–2), 201 BCE.
A, in G, CMGen 4.7 (12.799–800 K.), cites Papias’ remedy for inverted
eyelids (trikhiasis).
Fabricius (1726) 357.
PTK
Papirius Fabianus (ca 35 BCE – ca 30 CE)
A rhetorician and a philosopher (Seneca Senior, Controu. 2.4), he paid great attention to
physical science, and is called rerum naturae peritissimus by P (36.15), who refers to him in
the indices of 13 books (esp. cosmology, botany, and zoology). A prolific author (S,
Epist. 100.1) who deeply inspired Seneca (QN 3.27), he wrote on Physics (Libri Causarum
Naturalium, at least three books), and his De Animalibus (at least two books: Charisius GL
105.14 and 146.28, 4th c. CE) seems to have been akin to Greek and especially Aristotelian
PANKRATE ̄S OF ARGOS