Philippos wrote profusely on medicines (Gale ̄n, CMLoc 7 [13.14 K.], CMGen 2 [13.502
K.]: “those around Arkhigene ̄s and Philip”), though all works are lost, and Gale ̄n quotes
several compounds (through A P): for dysentery (intestinal pain)
and blood-spitting (CMLoc 7 [13.88 K.]); for phthisic patients and those spitting blood
(CMLoc 7 [13.105 K.]); and an analgesic against chronic dysentery (CMLoc 7 [13.304 K.]).
Some preparations are also quoted in A A (9.48, p. 552 Cornarius [omitted
by Zervos 1911] = P A 7.12.17), and in Paulos of Aigina (3.42.3 and 7.12.7
[CMG 9.1, p. 234; 9.2, p. 315]). If we take Juvenal (above) literally, Philippos taught his
students to bleed patients, corresponding to Pneumaticist therapeutic methods.
RE 19.2 (1938) 2367–2368 (#50), H. Diller; KP 4.752 (#24), F. Kudlien; Idem (1968) 1099; BNP 11
(2007) 41 (#I.33), V. Nutton.
Alain Touwaide
Philiskos of Thasos (325 – 25 BCE)
An authority on beekeeping, who earned the nickname “Wild-man” (Agrios) for setting up
his apiary in a remote part of the countryside. His work Melittourgika was known to P
(1.ind.11, 11.19) and probably H as well.
RE 19.2 (1938) 2389 (#14), W. Kroll.
Philip Thibodeau
Philistide ̄s of Mallos (110 BCE – 70 CE?)
Cited by P 4.58 (Crete) and 4.120 (Gaddir/Gade ̄s), with K M, for a
work on islands.
BNP 11 (2007) 45, W. Ax.
PTK
Philistio ̄n of Lokroi (370 – 340 BCE)
Physician of Dionysios II of Surakousai (P Ep. 2.314d: 364 BCE), quoted in
K’ Pinakes as E K’ teacher (D L 8.86).
Perhaps he came to Athens, if a fragment of the comic playwright Epikrate ̄s (fr. 10 PCG) can
be interpreted as referring to Philistio ̄n.
The titles of Philistio ̄n’s works are lost, but he surely wrote on surgery (fr.15 W.), dietetics
(fr.9 W.) and pharmacology (fr. 10 – 12 W.); his “dialectal” name for the temporal vein is
recorded (“eagle”: fr.8 W.). Perhaps because of his fame in dietetics, he was thought by some
to have authored the H C, R (fr.14 W.). His doctrine about the
causes of disease is described by L (20.24–50): man is constituted by
four kosmic elements, each with a single property, fire/hot, air/cold, water/moist, earth/
dry. The origin of diseases is complex, but three series of causes are distinguishable: the
imbalance of elements in the body, external causes ( physical trauma etc.), and the dis-
position of bodies, wherein good circulation and transpiration of pneuma is the essential
condition for good health. It has been inferred from this account, compared with G
4.471 K. (fr.6 W.), that in Philistio ̄n’s opinion respiration (and transpiration) had the function
of moderating innate heat. His doctrine is clearly connected with E and prob-
ably influenced the pathological theory of Plato in Timaios 70a–d, 82a–b, 84d. Traces of his
PHILISTIO ̄N OF LOKROI