Philinos, however, initiated the two major genres of the school, i.e., H exegesis
and pharmacology. As for Hippokratic exegesis, he wrote a work in six books against the
Hippokratic lexicon of the He ̄rophilian B (but the three remaining glosses,
attested by E A-4, A-103, fr.33 ( pp. 10.17, 23.9, and 108.17 Nachm.), do not
differ from those given by Bakkheios). His pharmaceutical work is quoted, for single remed-
ies, by P and G (via A (Y)). It is uncertain whether he is
the same Philinos who wrote about theriac (P, CMG 11.1.1, p. 10.19).
Ed.: Deichgräber (1930) 163–164 (frgg.), 254–255.
RE 19.2 (1938) 2193–2194, H. Diller; DSB 10.581, F. Kudlien; OCD3 1160, H. von Staden; Ihm
(2002) #199; AML 694 – 695, K.-H. Leven; BNP 11 (2007) 22 (#4), V. Nutton.
Fabio Stok
Philippos (Astron.) (150 – 90 BCE?)
Named in unclear contexts in two inscriptions from De ̄los. He is designated simply as
astrologos, at this period signifying an astronomer, not an astrologer. A proposed identification
with P M is highly dubious; more probably our Philippos was a local
expert of no wide fame.
RE 19.2 (1938) 2558–2560 (#71), P. Treves.
Alexander Jones
P ⇒ A
Philippos of Egypt (100 – 170 CE)
G records the teaching of a philosopher from Egypt, who at the age of 40 published a
book prescribing a regimen for eternal youth, by maintaining the wetness of one’s bodily
humors; he lived to be a frail 80, publishing a second work, Amazing Agelessness, explaining
that for success, one had to start the diet in infancy: Sanitate 1.12.14–15, 6.3.45 (CMG 5.4.2,
pp. 29, 176), Marasmos 2, 4–7, 9 (7.670–671, 678, 685–686, 689, 694, 701 K.), Caus. Puls. 4
(9.176–177 K.), Praesag. Puls. 1 (9.246–247 K.), and MM 7 (10.495 K.). He attributed the
wasting of age to disorders of the pulse and excessive fevers. A A 4.97 (CMG
8.1, p. 407) repeats parts, and gives the ethnic. ( The contemporary Ignatius of Antioch,
105 – 110 CE, Epist. Ephes. 20, refers to the “drug of immortality, the antidote of undying.”)
RE 19.2 (1938) 2369–2370 (#51), H. Diller.
PTK
Philippos of Ko ̄s (400 BCE – 300 CE)
The “Laurentian” list of medical writers (MS Laur. Lat. 73.1, f.143V = fr.13 Tecusan)
includes PHILIPPVS COVS. Most likely a mistake for P K, not elsewhere on
the list (which includes, inter alia, H, E, S, G,
and P: i.e., other school-founders and Empiricists); less likely a reference to
P ( P), or an otherwise unknown medical writer. Cf. E,
H, and L.
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PTK
PHILIPPOS (ASTRON.)