Antullos’ major contribution was in surgery. He performed difficult interventions (includ-
ing laryngotomy, fistulas, several eye interventions, and head abscesses), and wrote a major
work Kheirourgoumena (at least two books), quoting H, and another on hydro-
cephalic newborns.
In the field of pharmaceutical therapy, his Peri Boe ̄the ̄mato ̄n discussed external medicines
(Book 1); cathartic medicines (Book 2); diet (Book 3); and gymnastics (Book 4). A work On the
Preparation of Medicines, a large compilation of formulas from Pneumaticist physicians
including A A, H (P.), A P-
, and Arkhigene ̄s, plus others such as D K and R E-
, is probably a segment of his work on pharmaceutical therapy.
Antullos’ works are known only as fragments in Byzantine encyclopedists (Oreibasios and
P A), in Arabic works, and in a commentary on the H C
Humors dubiously ascribed to G, but probably dating to the Renaissance. His work on
gymnastics was the main source of Girolamo Mercuriale (1530–1606).
P. Nicolaides, Antylli, veteris chirurgi, ta leipsana (1799); RE 1.2 (1894) 2644–2645, M. Wellmann;
Wellmann (1895) 104–114; I. Bloch, “Griechische Aerzte des dritten und vierten (nach-christlichen)
Jahrhunderts,” in HGM 483 – 488; R.L. Grant, “Antyllus and his medical works,” BHM 34 (1960)
154 – 174; KP 1.415–416, F. Kudlien; Marganne (1981) 99; OCD3 117, J.T. Vallance; Marganne
(1998) –, 5, 11, 78; BNP 1 (2002) 810–811, V. Nutton.
Alain Touwaide
Apeimantos (280 – 250 BCE)
G, On Venesection, Against Erasistratos 2 (11.151 K. = p. 18 Brain), lists him, and S
(E.), as students of K K (II). Both, like their fellow-student
E, eschewed venesection due to the danger of excessive bleeding.
(Kühn prints “Apoi-”, unattested, instead of Apei-/Ape ̄-, common from the 5th to 2nd
cc. BCE.)
Fabricius (1726) 73.
PTK
Apella ̄s of Kure ̄ne ̄ (350 BCE – 465 CE)
Apella ̄s ho Kure ̄naios is cited by M H as one of his sources for his
epitome of M P: GGM 1.565. Perhaps to be identified with
O K.
RE 1.2 (1894) 2686 (#7), H. Berger; RE 19.1 (1937) 849, F. Gisinger; RE 18.1 (1939) 630, E. Honigmann.
Andreas Kuelzer
Apella ̄s of Laodikeia (ca 150 – 350 CE?)
Addressee – real or fictitious – of one of the letters that make up A’ veterinary
treatise. The letter, about dislocated joints, is preserved in the Hippiatrika (Hippiatrica Parisina
182 = Hippiatrica Berolinensia 26.3). Apsurtos calls Apella ̄s hippiatros, “horse-doctor,” but does
not specify which of the cities named Laodikeia was his correspondent’s home.
CHG v.1; McCabe (2007).
Anne McCabe
APEIMANTOS