in somewhat abbreviated excerpt form. One of its antidotes, also quoted by “A
P” ( p. 54.19–26 Ihm), is tacitly derived from N’ panacea ( Jacques
138 – 145; Jacques 2002: v. 2, n. 119). Other sources mentioned include physicians who
were active in Rome under Trajan, Hadrian, and the Antonines such as T
M (Pneumaticist like Arkhigene ̄s) and the Methodist S E.
These borrowings do not establish Philoumenos’ membership in a medical school. The fact
that he was a compiler explains the absence of references to his work in G. Fragments
of Philoumenos’ work found in A T’ Latin version show that
Philoumenos had also used M S from whom he quotes a trokhiskos
against dysentery (De medicina 2.138.15).
Ed.: M. Wellmann, De uenenatis animalibus = CMG 10.1.1 (1908).
M. Wellmann, “Philumenos,” Hermes 43 (1908) 373–404; RE 20.1 (1941) 209–211 (#7), H. Diller;
Jean-Marie Jacques, “Nicandre de Colophon poète et médecin,” Ktema 4 (1979) 133–149; BNP 11
(2007) 126–127, A. Touwaide.
Jean-Marie Jacques
Philoxenos of Alexandria (120 – 90 BCE?)
C 7.pr.3, assigning him a leading role in the systematization and development of sur-
gery, describes his book as “most diligent”; P. C C 1 is similar. A
P., in G, CMLoc records several recipes: mineral-based remedy for tumors, 3.3
(12.683–684 K.); three collyria, the last containing henbane, mandrake, and opium, 4.7
( pp. 731, 735–736, 743–744); and two wound-ointments, both containing frankincense and
birthwort, in CMGen 4.13 (13.738–739 K.) and 4.13 (13.742–743) = 5.8 (13.819–820).
Gale ̄n, adding the probably extraneous nomen Claudius, praises and records ointments he
himself used, CMGen 2.17, 3.9 (13.539–540, 645 K.).
Michler (1968) 58–60, 104–105; BNP 11 (2007) 125 (#7), V. Nutton.
PTK
Phimenas of Saïs (before 230 – 350 CE)
Alchemist mentioned in P. L X as the source of a recipe for the making of
Egyptian ase ̄mos (recipe 82; ed. Halleux 1981). The name is Egyptian, meaning roughly
“Me ̄nodoulos.” There is no reason to suppose that he is the alchemist P (Halleux
1981: 103, n.2).
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Bink Hallum
Phlego ̄n of Tralleis, P. Aelius (ca 117 – 138 CE)
A freedman of the emperor Hadrian who moved in the imperial literary circle. Apart from
a chronographical compendium, Olympiads, and geographical and topographical treatises,
of which at best a few fragments remain, he compiled two shorter books, On Marvels
(Peri thaumasio ̄n) and Long-Lived Persons (Peri makrobio ̄n), surviving more or less complete.
Although they appear side by side in the mirabilia-section of the Heidelberg MS Palat. gr.
398 (10th c. CE) containing additionally the works of A K and
A, and although the Souda (Phi-527) also mentions both books together, they
PHILOXENOS OF ALEXANDRIA