Quintus (of Pergamon?) (ca 115 – ca 145 CE)
Student of M, and praised by G (Prognosis 1 [CMG 5.8.1, pp. 70–72]) as the
best doctor of his era, he made anatomical discoveries that he taught to his students (includ-
ing L M and S S), but did not publish (Gale ̄n, Anat.
Admin. 14.1 = Duckworth 1962: 183). He also commented upon the H
C, E, perhaps published (In Hipp. Epid. III [CMG 5.10.2.1, pp. 14–17, 59],
In Hipp. Epid. VI [CMG 5.10.2.2, pp. 212, 314]). He practiced in Rome under Hadrian, but
was banished thence on a charge of malpractice, and died (in Pergamon?) in Gale ̄n’s youth
(Anat. Admin. 1.2 [2.224–225 K.]). Gale ̄n wrote a (lost) work in support of Quintus’ criticism
of the four qualities (GAS 3 [1970] 167), and describes him as being like an Empiricist,
but not of that school (In Hipp. Epid. I, CMG 5.10.1, pp. 6, 17, 52). Gale ̄n explains
that Quintus substituted Pontic nard (karpe ̄sion) for cinnamon (Antid. 1.14 [14.69–72 K.]);
O, Syn. 3.192 (CMG 6.3, p. 115), preserves Quintus’ henbane- and opium-based
anodyne.
Grmek and Gourevitch (1994) 1503–1513.
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Quirinus (350 – 450 CE?)
With the assistance of M, wrote a Me ̄khanike ̄, according to Leo ̄n, Anth. Gr. 9.200.
Leo ̄n praises technical works of the 4th–5th centuries CE (9.201–202), but also of the late
3rd c. BCE (9.578), so if Marcellus is the taker of Surakousai, Quirinus could instead be
contemporary with P. (Note that A M. dedicated his On Machines to
Marcellus, usually taken to be A’ nephew.) The name may be a pseudonym, since
Quirinus is the Sabine god of war.
PLRE 2 (1980) 933 (#1); Netz (1997) #136.
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QUIRINUS