Apollo ̄nios of Pergamon (Med.) (15 BCE – 182 CE)
Greek physician quoted for scarification of the legs as a therapeutic method which he had
successfully employed on himself during a plague in Asia (O Coll. 7.19 = CMG
6.1.1, p. 218; Eustath. 1.14 = 6.3, pp. 12–13, and Eunap. 1.9.7 = 6.3, p. 325, with ethnic); for
the method cf. G, De hirudinibus (11.322 K.). Scarification was a typically Pneumati-
cist therapy, attempting to restore the body’s natural balance (eukrasia) by eliminating blood
to reduce excessive bodily heat which caused the plague. A T (1.15 =
1.559, 1.561 Puschm.) twice cites an anethnic Apollo ̄nios on epilepsy, who must be
A K (cf. C A Chron. 1.140 = CML 6.1.1, p. 512.22),
refuting Wellmann’s attribution to this Apollo ̄nios. Likewise, the anethnic Apollo ̄nios,
author of Euporista, at Oreibasios, Eunap., pr. (CMG 6.3, p. 318), must be A
“M.” This Apollo ̄nios is distinct from the homonymous agronomist.
RE 2.1 (1895) 150 (#104) M. Wellmann; von Staden (1989) 548–550.
Alain Touwaide
Apollo ̄nios of Pitane ̄ (350 BCE – 77 CE)
Physician who treated cataracts and albugines (opaque white spots on the eye) with honey and
dog’s (rather than hyena’s) gall (P 29.117).
RE 2.1 (1895) 151 (#108), M. Wellmann.
GLIM
Apollo ̄nios of Prousias (30 BCE – 120 CE)
Wrote on childbirth, advising attendants to grasp the projecting part of the khorion (after-
birth) to draw it out (S, Gyn. 4.14 [CMG 4, pp. 144–145; CUF v. 2, p. 11]), as had
E and S. Listed after and probably later than So ̄stratos.
RE 2.1 (1895) 151 (#110), M. Wellmann.
GLIM
Apollo ̄nios of Tarsos (250 BCE – 80 CE)
A, in G CMGen 5.13 (13.843 K.), records his mineral remedy for hem-
orrhoids: alum, copper and its flakes, diphruges, roasted orpiment, khalkanthon, khal-
kitis, litharge, and roasted so ̄ru.
RE 2.1 (1895) 151 (#109), M. Wellmann.
PTK
Apollo ̄nios of Tuana, pseudo
Cited for amulets in Byzantine times, and famous in Arabic tradition as “Master of Talismans”
under the name Bal ̄ına ̄s (and the like, whence Medieval Latin Belenus). Several works
attributed to him survive in Arabic, most famous of which is Kita ̄b Sirr al-khal ̄ıqa. This
synthetic work, composed perhaps around 900 CE, utilizes N’ De natura hominis and
includes the famous alchemical tabula smaragdina attributed to H T. Other
extant works attributed to Apollo ̄nios in Arabic, on talismans, await careful investigation.
APOLLO ̄NIOS OF PERGAMON (MED.)