seems otherwise unattested, and may be distorted from, e.g, Polustratos (though no
pharmacist by that name is otherwise known) or perhaps P.
(*)
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Polustratos (275 – 225 BCE)
Epicurean philosopher and student of E, he became the third scholarch of
the Garden upon the death of H (D L 10.25). Little is
known of his life, but two titles are attested: On Philosophy and On the Unfounded Contempt
of Commonly Held Beliefs. The latter is preserved in fragments among the Herculaneum
papyri, and attacks skeptical philosophers who denied that knowledge could be based on the
senses.
Ed.: G. Indelli, Sul Disprezzo Irrationale (1978).
RE 21.2 (1952) 1833 (#7), H.J. Mette; Long and Sedley (1987) §7D; OCD3 1213, D. Obbink; ECP 446,
D. Clay; BNP 11 (2007) 533–534 (#2), T. Dorandi.
Walter G. Englert
P- ⇒ P-
P ⇒ T
Pompeius Lenaeus (70 – 40 BCE)
A learned freedman of Pompey Magnus who at the latter’s request translated into Latin
M VI’s pharmacological writings, which P (1.ind.14–15, 20–27, 25.5–7)
utilized. A fragment describes mustax – a variety of laurel with pale, drooping leaves –
distinguished from the more familiar Delphic and Cyprian laurels mentioned by C;
another sketches the appearance and medicinal properties of a plant from Pontos called
scordotis or scordion (15.127, 25.63). The famous story of Mithradate ̄s’ efforts to immunize
himself against poisons by consuming them in minute quantities comes from this work
(25.6; Gellius 17.16).
Speranza (1971) 63–65; KP 3.556, W. Richter; OCD3 1215, J.W. Duff; BNP 11 (2007) 386 (#2), Ed.
Courtney.
Philip Thibodeau
Pompeius Sabinus (90 – 110 CE)
Prepared for Aburnius Valens a complex herbal antidote: A P., in
G CMGen 7.12 (13.1021–1023, 1027 K.). PIR2 identify the pharmacist as the
procurator of E ̄peiros (CIL 3.12299), and the patient as L. Fuluius Aburnius Valens (PIR2
F-526), the latter of whom is later than Askle ̄piade ̄s; probably ancestors of those men are
involved.
PIR2 P-649.
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POLUSTRATOS