Puramos (250 BCE – 95 CE)
A P. records in G CMLoc 4.7 (12.777–778 K.) his eye-salve, treating
scars and swelling/calluses, and all protuberances, compounded from Cyprian calamine,
hematite, roasted copper, roasted misu, saffron, ammo ̄niakon incense, copper scales,
heated and cooled, to which are then added opium, myrrh, gum and very sour vinegar. This
rare name, known from the 5th c. BCE to 3rd c. CE, is concentrated in western Greece and
Magna Graecia (LGPN).
RE 24 (1963) 11 (#4), H. Diller.
GLIM
Purgotele ̄s (or Ergotele ̄s?) (280 – 260 BCE)
Son of Zo ̄e ̄s, master ship builder for Ptolemy II Philadelphos, for whose services Philadel-
phos erected in the temple of Aphrodite at Paphos a statue whose inscription (OGIS 39) cites
Purgotele ̄s’ two ships, one a “thirty” the other a “twenty” (cf. Athe ̄naios, Deipn. 5 [203c–d],
and see Casson pp. 99–116). The inscription is damaged, and only ...ΟΤΕΛΗΣ is pre-
served. Purgotele ̄s is attested once at De ̄los and four times at Rhodes (2nd c. BCE: LGPN
1.396); the sole alternate supplement, Ergotele ̄s, is more common, attested 30 times from
the 5th–2nd cc. BCE (LGPN 1.162, 2.155, 3A.151, 3B.142), though also not on Cyprus. For
Zo ̄e ̄s, see LGPN 1.195 (Cyprus and Lesbos).
RE 24 (1963) 49 (#2), E. Fabricius; L. Casson, Ships and seamanship in the ancient world (1971; repr. 1986).
GLIM
Purrhos of E ̄peiros (and Macedon) (295 – 275 BCE)
A M. p. 5 W. lists Purrhos “of Macedon” (after D, K, and
D) as a writer on siege engines (cf. V 7.pr.14). He also wrote so well on
mining and tunneling that Athe ̄naios had nothing to add ( p. 31 W.). P, Pyrrh. 8,
Aelianus, Taktika 1.2, and C, ad Fam. 9.25.1, record that King Purrhos of E ̄peiros
wrote a Taktika, abridged by his minister K. Purrhos was king of Macedon for less
than a year (287 BCE: Plut., Pyrrh. 11).
OCD3 1283, P.S. Derow.
PTK
Purrhos of Magnesia (250 BCE – 100 CE)
Wrote a commentary on A (FGrHist 1026 T19), entirely lost.
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PTK
Puthagoras (Med.) (450 – 50 BCE)
Physician, wrote a work On Squill (skille ̄s: cf. E), or less likely On Hernia (ke ̄le ̄s), and
perhaps a book about H: De ̄me ̄trios of Magnesia, in D L 8.47 (later
than Puthagoras of Rhe ̄gion, the sculptor); pseudo-G, Eupor. 3 (14.567 K.) cites Gale ̄n
for “Pythagoras on squill.” Two fragments in Arabic concerning urine are attributed to a
Pythagoras of Alexandria (Ullmann 1970: 82). A’ notice regarding Puthagoras’
PURAMOS