work quoted by M). Still disputed is the poem’s authorship and the date: in addition
to Priscian, Remmius Palaemon or D (as a partial Latin version of his work), it has
been recently assigned either to Fauinus or to an unknown poet of the 6th c. CE.
Ed.: MSR 2.24–32, 88–100: text #120.
RE 3.2 (1899) 1593–1594, F. Hultsch; K.D. Raios, Recherches sur le Carmen de ponderibus et mensuris (1983);
S. Grimaudo, “Metrologia e poesia nel tardoantico: struttura e cronologia del Carmen de ponderibus
et mensuris,” Pan 10 (1990) 87–110; BNP 2 (2003) 1112, J. Gruber.
Mauro de Nardis
Carminius (ca 300 – 400 CE?)
Wrote a grammatical work On Expressions (cited by Seruius ad Aen. 5.233, 7.445) and a geo-
graphical work On Italy, cited by M Sat. 5.19.3 on the use of bronze in early Italy.
BNP 2 (2003) 1114–1115 (#6), P.L. Schmidt
PTK
C- ⇒ K-
C- ⇒ K-
C ⇒ C S
Cassianus Bassus (500 – 600 CE?)
Of uncertain origin (his title skholastikos predates ca 620), author of a Greek agricultural
compendium, Peri geo ̄rgias eklogai. The work, surviving only in the G, was compiled,
apparently with little modification, from the Sunago ̄ge ̄ geo ̄rgiko ̄n epite ̄deumato ̄n of V
A and the Geo ̄rgika of D A. Cassianus’ name and title are
preserved in one MS of the Geo ̄ponika (Marcianus gr. 524), along with vestiges that the work
was written for “my dear son Bassus” (7.pr., 8.pr., 9.pr.). First-person references in the
Geo ̄ponika seem to belong to Cassianus (e.g. 1.pr., 10.73.1, 13.1.1); among them, we find
personal acquaintance with the didactic poetry of N L (12.16.1, 15.1.11,
32). The author speaks of his property in a district called Maro ̄ton (5.6.6, perhaps in Syria).
The Eklogai were translated into Old Persian (Warz-na ̄mag) and thence into Arabic, the Filaha
farisiyya (with its author’s name variously corrupted to Qust ̧u ̄s or Kasinu ̄s).
Oder (1890, 1893); RE 3.2 (1899) 1667–1668 (#10), M. Wellmann; C.A. Nallino, in T.W. Arnold and
R. Nicholson, edd., Festschrift Edward G. Browne (1922) 346–351; J. Carabaza Bravo, Arabic Sciences and
Philosophy 12 (2002) 155–178.
Robert H. Rodgers
C ⇒ D U
Cassius (10 BCE – 30 CE)
Physician of the time of A and Tiberius (C pr.69: “the most ingenious
practitioner of our generation”; P 29.7), famous for a specific for the relief of colic
(kolikon) that was used also by Tiberius (S L 120; Celsus 4.21.2; 5.25.12;
CASSIUS