Boupha(n)tos (120 BCE – 565 CE)
A T (2.577 Puschm.) quotes his remedy for gout, composed of anise,
silphion, ginger, pepper, kostos, and salt. The form Bouphantos is attested: LGPN 3B.88
(Boio ̄tia, 3rd c. BCE); cf. perh. B.
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Boutoridas (ca 100 BCE – 20 CE)
Wrote a geographical or paradoxographical work on Egypt, cited once by P 36.79.
The name is otherwise unattested (though cf. Boutadas, LGPN 3A.94), but probably derives
from the Egyptian city Boutos, S 17.1.18.
FGrHist 654.
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Brenitus (120 BCE – ca 90 CE)
A in G, CMLoc 6.4 (13.288 K.), cites his laxative containing opium, Indian
nard, white pepper, gentian (cf. G), etc.; and 10.1 (13.330–331), his pain-killer for
nephritis; A in Gale ̄n CMLoc 9.3 (13.266) cites the laxative of 6.4 as a remedy
for dropsy. The presence of Indian nard and white pepper suggests the terminus post of
ca 120 BCE. Both 9.3 and 10.1 read ΒΙΕΝΝΙΟY (cf. the Latin nomina Biennius and Brennius:
Schulze [1904/1966] 133), only 6.4 preserving ΒPENITOY, the spelling of this probably
Celtic name (cf. Breniton, a place in Burgundy, R C 4.26, and the
Celtic chieftains named Brennos, S 4.1.13 and Livy 5.38.3, 48.8). Perhaps cf.
Brente ̄s of Thasos, 7th c. BCE (LGPN 1.104)?
Fabricius (1726) 102, 104.
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Bromios of Athens (315 – 305 BCE)
Constructor of the earliest double-purpose artillery piece, capable of shooting both stones
and bolts: IG^2 2.1487.B, lines 84–90.
Marsden (1969) 70.
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Bruso ̄n of He ̄rakleia Pontike ̄ (380 – 350 BCE)
A twice refers to Bruso ̄n’s attempt to square the circle: it is a proof from immedi-
ate truths, but provides only accidental knowledge of its result because its principles are too
general and apply to other subject matters (APo. 1.9 [75b37–76a3]); moreover, it is “sophis-
tic, even if the circle is squared, because it is not in accordance with its subject” (Soph. Ref.
11 [171b16–18]) and it is contentious or eristic because it does not proceed from principles
specific
(172a2–7). Ancient commentators on Aristotle offer several reconstructions of Bruso ̄n’s
argument, all involving the inscription and circumscription of one or more polygons in and
BRUSO ̄N OF HE ̄RAKLEIA PONTIKE ̄