Axios (45 BCE – 100 CE)
Ocularis of the Roman British fleet. K H preserves two recipes: his
collyrium based on cinnabar, in G CMLoc 4.8 (12.786 K.), and his treatment for
leikhe ̄n, ibid. 5.3 (12.841 K.: emending from ΑΞΙΟΡI-), compounded of copper flakes,
khalkanthon, realgar, cantharides, and white hellebore. The name could be Latin, the
plebeian nomen Axius.
RE 2.2 (1896) 2633 (#2), M. Wellmann.
PTK
Azanite ̄s (1st c. BCE)
Created a special plaster against various types of ulcers, wounds, and other diseases, men-
tioned by H and approved by G (CMGen 5 [13.784–785 K.]). Azanite ̄s’ pharma-
cological formulae were popular, quoted by O (Synopsis, 3, p. 43), A
A (14.34, p. 781 Cornarius; 15.21, p. 854 Cornarius, where Zervos 1909: 123 reads
“Ananias”), and P A (CMG 9.2, p. 376; cf. also Hipp. Berol. 130.126–127,
p. 424 ed. Oder-Hoppe).
RE 2.2 (1896) 2640, M. Wellmann.
Antonio Panaino
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