Anoubio ̄n of Diospolis (1st c. CE?)
Astrologer featuring in the fictitious account of pseudo-Clement, Homiliae (4.6), as an
associate of the famous wizard Simo ̄n Magos who later repudiated this master. Anoubio ̄n
was also the ostensible author of a widely diffused Greek astrological poem, in at least four
books, that, exceptionally for its genre, was composed in elegiac couplets rather than hex-
ameters. F M (3.1), as well as Greek astrological compilations from late
antiquity, cite Anoubio ̄n as a source of doctrines, and a few elegiac lines from the poem
survive through the medieval manuscript tradition. Substantial fragments of elegiac verse
on astrology, almost certainly belonging to Anoubio ̄n’s opus, have been identified in several
papyri dating from the 2nd c. CE and after. The surviving portions are devoted to specifics
of interpreting horoscopes, and the poem, although betraying some literary pretensions,
appears to have been intended as a practical handbook directed primarily to professional
astrologers.
Ed.: POxy 66 (1999) 57–109; D. Obbink, Anubio: Carmen astrologicum elegiadum (2006).
Alexander Jones
Anqı ̄la ̄was (or Anqı ̄la ̄us) (620 – 640 CE)
Probably the Aggeleuas mentioned by S in his commentary on G’s Thera-
peutics to Glauko ̄n. Arabic sources know him, together with the earlier G P
and M, as one of the early 7th c. Alexandrian physicians who abridged Gale ̄n’s
works into a canonical medical curriculum surviving in Arabic as Jawa ̄mi al-Iskandara ̄niyy ̄ın
or Summaria Alexandrinorum. Ibn-Juljul says Anq ̄ıla ̄was was the chief (ra ̄ıs) of the Alexandri-
ans, evidently the head of the school, and wrote books of medicine.
Ullmann (1970) 21, 65; GAS 3 (1970) 160; Dickson (1998) 77; D. Gutas, “The ‘Alexandria to
Baghdad’ Complex of Narratives. A Contribution to the Study of Philosophical and Medical
Historiography among the Arabs,” Documenti e Studi sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale 10 (1999)
155 – 193.
Kevin van Bladel
Anthaios, Sextilius (25 – 75 CE)
P lists him after D, A “M,” M, and A
(1.ind.28 and 28.7–8) as giving medicines from the human body, and records his quasi-
magical remedy for hudrophobia (pills made from the skull of a hanged man). S-
L in A P., in G CMLoc 4.7 (12.764–765 K.), records his
green plaster of acacia, calamine, saffron, myrrh, Indian nard, opium, etc., in gum and
rain-water; cf. A A 12.44 (p. 102 Kostomiris). Pliny also lists Antaeus as a
Greek authority on trees, 1.ind.12–13.
RE 1.2 (1894) 2343 (#7), M. Wellmann.
PTK
Anthedius of Vesunnici (450 – 470 CE)
President of a poetical society, lectured on musicians, geometers, arithmeticians, and astro-
logers, and was, according to Sidonius Apollinaris’ fawning account of his friend, an expert
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