250 CE, but see Di Maria ). Two MSS also attribute shorter tracts, Life of Aratos and Peri
exe ̄ge ̄seo ̄s, commenting on the first verses of Aratos and possibly part of a larger commentary
(this plausible attribution is disputed, see Di Maria –).
Ed.: G. Di Maria, Achillis quae feruntur astronomica et in Aratum opuscula (1996).
Martin (1956); DPA 1 (1989) 48–49, P. Robiano; BNP 1 (2002) 96 (#2), K. Brodersen.
Alain Bernard
Akhinapolos (?) (ca 150 – 25 BCE?)
Devised a method of casting zodiacs from the time of conception rather than birth (V-
9.6.2). All MSS agree on ACHINAPOLVS (save two late Vaticani, 2767 and 1328,
which read ARCHINAPOLVS); the name seems otherwise unattested. Rose emended to
Athe ̄nodo ̄ros.
RE 1.1 (1893) 248, E. Riess, s.v. Achinapolus.
GLIM
Akholios (400 – 500 CE?)
A A 8.58 (CMG 8.2, p.506) records his cough medicine composed of penny-
royal, pepper, hyssop, etc. in terebinth, fresh butter, and honey. For the rare name, cf.
PLRE 1 (1971) 9–10 (ca 400 CE) or Pho ̄tios, Bibl. 257 (477a).
Fabricius (1726) 31.
PTK
Akro ̄n of Akragas (ca 450 – 400 BCE)
Son of a doctor with the same name (D L 8.63). A late tradition relates
that Akro ̄n had some success in curing the plague of Athens by lighting fires (P,
Isis and Osiris 80 [383 C–D], A A, 5.95 [CMG 8.2, pp. 80–82]), a story also told
of H, his slightly younger contemporary. According to P 29.5 he founded
the Empiricists (and was recommended by E), a foundation-legend rejected
by -G Introd. 4 (14.683 K.).
Ed.: Wellmann (1901) 70, 73, fragments pp. 108–109; Deichgräber (1965) 40–41, 270.
Pinault (1992) 45–46, 55; BNP 1 (2002) 114, V. Nutton.
Robert Littman
A ⇒ D. C A
Albinus (Encyclo.) (ca 320 – 345 CE?)
Latin encyclopedist, wrote on music (C, Inst. 2.10), geometry, and dialectic
(B, Inst. Mus. 1.12, 26), all lost. Perhaps identifiable with one of the men
named Ceionius Rufinus Albinus, and/or Albinus the poet of De Metris and Res Romanae
(FLP 425 – 426); cf. M, Sat. 1.24.19.
PLRE 1 (1971) 33–34 (#4,5), 37–38 (#14,15); OCD3 50, R.A. Kaster; BNP 1 (2002) 431 (#2),
L. Zanoncelli.
GLIM
AKHINAPOLOS