Aphrodisis (50 BCE – 95 CE)
A P., in G, CMGen 7.12 (13.1013 K.), records his akopon contain-
ing rose oil, henna oil, iris, myrrh oil, terebinth, balsam, and beeswax, in must and honey.
The rare name is widely attested, beginning in the 1st c. CE (LGPN), and an emendation to
A is otiose.
Fabricius (1726) 72.
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Aphros (250 BCE – 540 CE)
A A 7.114 (CMG 8.2, p. 390) records his “Black Phoenix” collyrium, includ-
ing cuttlefish bone, ground pumice, ammo ̄niakon incense, verdigris, burnt deer-horn,
myrrh and opium, plus notably burnt “phoenix” bones, in honey and water. The name
(“foam”) is otherwise unattested, and an emendation to A or even A
seems likely.
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Aphthonios of Rome (250 – 350 CE)
O, Ecl. Med. 75.18 (CMG 6.2.2, p. 246), calling him a dikologos (advocate), records
his arthritis ointment, compounded from beeswax, butter, galbanum, lanolin, lard, pine-
resin, terebinth, etc. (For this rare late form of Aphthone ̄tos, cf. PLRE 1 [1971] 81–82, 2
[1980] 110.)
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A ⇒ A
Apio ̄n of Oasis, Egypt (20 – 50 CE)
Son of Poseido ̄nios, migrated to Alexandria, studied under Didumos “Khalkenteros,” and
became head of the grammatical school there; member of the Alexandrian embassy to
Caligula in 40 CE, denouncing the Alexandrian Jews, thereafter remaining in Rome. Wrote
on H, Egypt, and other topics, and was the object of Iosephus’ Against Apio ̄n. P
1.ind.30–32 (medicine from animals: cf. A NA 11.40), and 35–37 (minerals: presum-
ably his De Metallica Disciplina) lists him as a source (cf. 37.19). A P., in
G CMGen 5.15 (13.856 K.), gives his mineral remedy for anthrax: copper ore, twice-
roasted khalkanthon, red natron, orpiment, and realgar, ground in vinegar, dried and
ground again.
FGrHist 616=1057; OCD3 121, N.G. Wilson; EJ2 2.256, A. Schalit.
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Apios Phaskos (100 BCE – 110 CE)
K, in G CMLoc 5.3 (12.841–842 K.), records his skin-treatment, composed of
copper flakes, orpiment, realgar, squirting cucumber, black hellebore, and the abdomens of
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