Andreas, employing both mechanical and pharmaceutical treatments, was widely cited
for the latter. He observed that bandages could alleviate headaches (Ath., Deipn. 15 [675c]),
and he developed a machine to set dislocated limbs described in detail by O (Coll.
49.4–6 = CMG 6.2.2, pp. 6–12; cf. C 8.20.4). Celsus quotes three complex prescrip-
tions: a multi-use emollient of costly exotics and aromatics (5.18.7); Andreas’ invention for
scrofulous tumors including nettle seed, galbanum, sea spurge seed, and unheated sulfur
(5.18.14; cf. A P. in G CMLoc 10.1 [13.343 K.]); and a salve of gum,
psimuthion, antimony, and litharge, smeared on the forehead to treat eye complaints
(6.6.16). Pliny preserves Andreas’ prescription of ashed crabs applied with oil to leprous eye
sores (32.87), and Dioskouride ̄s preserves his prescription of thistle applied over varicose
veins to prevent pain (4.118). In Gale ̄n, Andreas is cited as the source for N’ rose
compound for painful boils and prolapses (An.32 von Staden); also preserved are a treat-
ment for calloused ulcers (An.31 von Staden); a treatment for sciatica and arthritis, of
fenugreek dissolved and cooked in vinegar and honey (13.345 K.); and several emollients
similar to those in Celsus (An.29 von Staden).
J. Scarborough, “Nicander Theriaca 811. A note,” CPh 75 (1980) 138–140; Beavis (1988) 10–19; von
Staden (1989) 472–477; OCD3 88, A.J.S. Spawforth; von Staden (1999) 149–158; BNP 1 (2002) 680–
681 (#1), V. Nutton.
GLIM
Andrias (120 – 80 BCE)
According to V 9.8.1, the inventor, with T B, of the “All-
Latitude” (pros pan klima) sundial, which simultaneously provided directional orientation and
time (contrast P).
D.J.deS. Price, “Portable Sundials in Antiquity, including an Account of a New Example from Aphro-
disias,” Centaurus 14 (1969) 242–266.
PTK
Androitas of Tenedos (400 – 200 BCE?)
Wrote a Periplous of the Propontis of which one fragment survives in a scholiast.
FGrHist 599.
PTK
Androkude ̄s (Pythag.) (1st c. BCE?)
The Androkude ̄s cited by T (p. 52 de Falco), with A-
, H, et al., as a writer on the numerology of P’ reincarnations
may well be the same neo-Pythagorean (cited by Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 5.8.45.2,
I VP 145, etc.), who wrote On Pythagorean Symbols.
RE 1.2 (1894) 2149 (#2), J. Freudenthal; Burkert (1972) 167.
PTK
Androkude ̄s (Med.) (360 – 320 BCE)
Physician; contemporary of Alexander the Great, to be distinguished from A
P. The apocryphal epistle which an Androcydes sapientia clarus addressed to
ANDRIAS