Castricius (ca 30 BCE)
Roman author of a treatise on gardening (Kepourika) utilized by P (1.ind.19); quite
possibly identical to the “C. Castricius T. f. Caluus” of CIL 11.600 (from Forum Livi), a
decorated military officer from the triumviral period, and a devotee of agriculture.
RE 3.2 (1899) 1776 (#1), A. Stein.
Philip Thibodeau
Castus (50 – 80 CE)
A, in G CMGen 7.13 (13.1037–1038 K.), cites his terebinth-based
heating akopon, containing pine-pitch, olive oil, Illyrian iris, and Holarrhena-bark (xulomaker
phloiou, cf. Casson 1989: 125–126; Kühn prints xusmatos ploiou, “ship scrapings”). Androma-
khos, ibid. 6.14 (13.931), preserves his version of X A’ and
P’ anodyne, aphronitron and psimuthion, in beeswax, aged olive oil, and
terebinth. A, in Gale ̄n CMGen 4.13 (13.739 K.), cites his remedy for gangren-
ous wounds, composed of litharge, verdigris, myrrh, pine-bark, and root of black cha-
meleon (D 3.9), in olive oil and vinegar. The name is first attested in the 1st
c. CE, TLL Onomasticon 2 (1909) 251–252, cf. PIR2 C-547.
Fabricius (1726) 109.
PTK
C ⇒ M. P C
Caystrius of Sicily (before ca 350 CE)
Quoted by P S for a remedy for glanders (Pel. 9 = Hippiatrica
Parisina 44 = Hippiatrica Berolinensia 4.5) and described as a mango or horse-dealer.
Fischer (1980); Adams (1995); McCabe (2007) 167.
Anne McCabe
C- ⇒ K-
Celer the Centurion (10 BCE – 95 CE)
A P., in G CMGen 7.12 (13.1030–1031 K.), records a complex ako-
pon, prepared by (or for) this officer, good for sciatica, arthritis, and other ills, containing
over two dozen ingredients, among which amo ̄mon, cardamom, cassia, euphorbia,
malabathron perfume, myrrh from the Trogodutae, saffron, and finest nard. Askle ̄piade ̄s
insists this “royal” ointment is “very good.”
Nutton (1985) 145.
PTK
Celsinus of Kastabala (300 – 380 CE?)
Son of Eudo ̄ros, and wrote, according to the Souda K-1305, a Collection of the opinions of each
philosophical Sect (lost). However, if Celsinus is to be identified with the Celsinus whom
A mentions, and with the Celsus whom he at the end of his life mentions as
CELSINUS OF KASTABALA