Ed.: R. Hoyland, “A New Edition and Translation of the Leiden Polemon,” and A. Ghersetti, “The
Istanbul Polemon ( TK Recension): Edition and Translation of the Introduction,” in Swain (2007)
328 – 463 and 465–485.
KP 4.972–973 (#5), H. Gärtner; OCD3 1204 (#4), D.A.F.M. Russell; BNP 11 (2007) 460–461 (#6),
E. Bowie; M.W. Gleason, Making Man. Sophists and Self-Representation in Ancient Rome (1995); S. Swain,
“Polemon’s Physiognomy,” in Swain (2007) 125–201.
Sabine Vogt
Polite ̄s (250 BCE – 200 CE)
Cited by the P V 3 for the claim that the tuna-fry in the
Pontos are generated from mud (pe ̄los), hence their name “pe ̄lamus.” The name is rare after
the 1st c. BCE: LGPN (-tas, -te ̄s, and -tis).
(*)
PTK
Polle ̄s (Med.) (120 – 365 CE)
O, Syn. 3.13 (CMG 6.3, p. 65), cites his beeswax-based “crane” remedy composed
of verdigris, realgar, sandux (minium, i.e., red lead [lead tetroxide], prepared by roasting
litharge or psimuthion in air, below 500 ̊C: D, MM 5.88), terebinth, and
notably a crane wing, combusted in a sealed ceramic jar, all powdered. His recipes for
a chest-wound plaster and for an ointment for headaches and migraines, ibid. 3.15– 16
(pp. 67–68) contain primarily botanicals, but the Schol. Oreib. Coll. 45.21.1 (CMG 6.2.1,
p. 177) says he used a mixture of pigeon dung, barley-chaf f and water on scrofula. A
A preserves his digestif salt, containing calamint, chamomile-flower, eryngo-root,
konuza (cf. P 21.58; G, Simples 7.10.42 [12.35–36 K.]; Andre ̄ 1985: 74; Durling
1993: 209: either Inula viscosa Aiton [“fleabane”] or Inula graveolens Desf.), marjoram,
pepper, and silphion, plus roasted salt: 9.24 ( p. 507 Cornarius; omitted by Zervos
1911: 324–325), and seven complex softening diaphore ̄tike ̄ plasters (15.15, Zervos 1909:
73 – 75, 77–80, 82–83). P A, 4.16 (CMG 9.1, p. 334), places him after
A.
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PTK
Polle ̄s of Aigai, pseudo (80 – 120 CE)
Wrote three extensive volumes Concerning antipathies and sympathies (Souda, O-163),
including a fragment Roadside Augury (Enodion Oio ̄nisma). Along with M, Polle ̄s was
considered infallible (Souda, M-448; cf. M, V. Prokl. 10).
RE 21.2 (1952) 1410–1411 (#1), K. Scherling; Ullmann (1972) 394.
GLIM
P ⇒ (1) A; (2) V
POLLE ̄S OF AIGAI, PSEUDO