differences among particles [and] confusing one drug for another.” Diodotos wrote in iam-
bic trimeters on medical botany and ointments rich in exotic oils, but the title of the poem is
uncertain. P (20.77) calls it Anthologoumena, while E cites Book 2 of a
Murologio ̄n [N-4, s.v. nio ̄pon, p. 62 Nachm.]). Ero ̄tianos carefully separates the writings of
P from those by Diodotos, but Pliny (20.77, 25.110) confuses the two, causing
much perplexity among scholars who have presumed a “Petronius Diodotos,” when they are
two separate but roughly contemporary writers.
Scarborough and Nutton (1982) 205–206.
John Scarborough
Dioga ̄s “the anointer” (30 BCE – 95 CE)
A P., in G, CMLoc 7.5 (13.104 K.), records that Dioga ̄s the iatral-
eipte ̄s employed the “panacea” of A M. He may merely have been a prac-
titioner; the name is rare, attested from the Cimmerian Bosporos (LGPN 4.98).
Nutton (1985) 145.
PTK
Diogene ̄s (Geog.) (ca 50 BCE – 50 CE?)
Described his return from India and subsequent voyage down the east coast of Africa, as
recorded by M T in P, Geog. 1.9; cf. D and T.
RE 5.1 (1903) 763–764 (#41), H. Berger.
PTK
Diogene ̄s (Pharm.) (10 BCE – 30 CE)
A P., in G CMLoc 3.1 (12.686 K.), records his remedy based on
lanolin, terebinth, and rose oil for nasal ulcers, and, ibid. 9.7 (13.313–314 K.), a recipe for
hemorrhoids (reduce, in a bronze pot, cyclamen juice and honey to the consistency of
beeswax). C 5.19.20 (cf. 5.27.1A) credits presumably the same man with a black bite-
plaster (bitumen, beeswax, pitch, litharge, and olive oil). A A 3.111 (CMG
8.1, pp. 301–302) records a purifying phlegmagogue of euphorbia (cf. I), pepper, and
sal ammoniac in raw egg. Aëtios 2.30 (CMG 8.1, p. 166) cites “Diogene ̄s” in (scribal?) error
for D.
Fabricius (1726) 142.
PTK
Diogene ̄s Laërtios (150 – 250 CE)
The most important example of historiography of philosophy from antiquity is Diogene ̄s
Laërtios’ Compendium of the Lives and Opinions of Philosophers. The author is not otherwise
known, and his work can only be dated from a combination of the latest personalities he
mentions, and the fact that he was not yet influenced by Neo-Platonism. His work is
divided into ten books: (1) introduction and various wise men (including T), The
Ionian Tradition (Books 2–7): Ionian physicists, So ̄crate ̄s and the minor Socratics (2), P
(3), the Academy down to K (4), A and the Peripatetics down
DIOGENE ̄S LAE ̈RTIOS