P and the P. The work engages with interpretations of creation
from P, A and D (Hexaemeron 1.1–2). Ambrose’s discussion
includes properties of the heavens, oceans and land (1.6–3.5), the utility and typology of
vegetation (3.6–17), phenomena pertaining to celestial bodies and the calendar (4.1–9),
typology and physiology of sea life (5.2–11) and aerial (5.12–24) and terrestrial (6.2–5)
creatures, and an excursus on human physiology (6.9) drawing from G.
Ed.: PL 14 – 17.
J.J. Savage, trans., Hexameron, Paradise, and Cain and Abel (1961); N.B. McLynn, Ambrose of Milan (1994);
OCD3 71, P. Rousseau.
M. Shane Bjornlie
Ambrosios Sophiste ̄s (unknown date)
Author of a remedy for horses preserved in the chapter on head infections in the C and L
recensions of the Hippiatrika (Hippiatrica Cantabrigiensia 11.8).
CHG v.2; McCabe (2007).
Anne McCabe
Ambrosios of Puteoli, Rusticus (40 – 80 CE)
S L records the diuretic against kidney stones by Ambrosios of Puteoli,
composed of seeds of anise, carrot, celery, cucumber, and parsley, plus myrrh, etc., to be
taken for 40 days; on the seventh day the patient passes sandy residue: 152 = M
B 26.10 (CML 5, p. 430); the preparer must use a wooden pestle and wear no
iron ring. The same recipe and magical conditions are attributed to Rusticus by A-
, in G CMGen 10.1 (13.325–326 K.), whom Andromakhos, in G CMGen 2.7
(13.507–508 K.), describes as an associate (gno ̄rimos) of I A (who himself
is an associate of Andromakhos, 13.834 K., cf. Fabricius 1972: 228). Andromakhos also
records Rusticus’ wound-plaster based on litharge and psimuthion (ibid.), and his
hedrike ̄ composed of human milk, poppy juice, two raw eggs, butter, honey, etc.: in Gale ̄n,
CMLoc 9.6 (13.309 K.). A P., in Gale ̄n Antid. 2.14 (14.184 K.), quotes
Rusticus’ snake-bite antidote.
RE 1.2 (1894) 1812 (#3), M. Wellmann; PIR2 R-230.
PTK
A ⇒ M A T
Amelius Gentilianus of Etruria (ca 245 – 275 CE)
One of P’ most loyal students, joined Plo ̄tinos’ school in Rome in 246 – three years
after its opening – staying until 269 (Vit. Plot. 3.38–42). Amelius had already been educated
in philosophy by Lusimakhos and had learnt by heart almost all of N
A’s works (3.42–48).
A key figure in Plo ̄tinos’ school, Amelius prepared critical editions of Plo ̄tinos’ works (Vit.
Plot. 19.22–23), kept notes from Plo ̄tinos’ seminars (3.46–48), and also refuted Plo ̄tinos’
rivals and critics, writing 40 books against Z (16.12–14), trying to discredit the
charge that Plo ̄tinos had stolen his doctrines from Noume ̄nios (17.1–6). Amelius also wrote
AMBROSIOS SOPHISTE ̄S