prominently in his pathology. Similarly, coagulation and corruption of the blood cause
disease (frr.34, 59). In his Affection, Cause, Treatment, he addressed diseases in a systematic way,
ordering descriptions by symptoms, causal explanations and therapeutics. Convinced that
therapy is by opposites, Diokle ̄s tends to differentiate it according to a patient’s age and
constitution (frr.73, 92, 125). His remedies include bathing, venesection, emetics, walks,
fomentations, drugs and pills, dieting. His fame in antiquity derived mostly from his regimen
in health, wherein he focuses on the balance between nutriment and physical movement, as
in Hippokratic and even more ancient traditions. In dietetics he is keenly interested in the
“powers” of foodstuffs and takes into account all variables to determine them correctly,
specifying the influence of the mode of preparation on their effects (frr.187, 196).
Ed.: Wellmann (1901); P.J. van der Eijk, Diocles of Carystus. A Collection of the Fragments with Translation and
Commentary, 2 vv. (2000–2001) = SAM 22 – 23.
RE 5.1 (1903) 802–812 (#53), M. Wellmann; W. Jaeger, Diokles von Karystos. Die griechische Medizin und die
Schule von Aristoteles (1938); Idem, “Vergessene Fragmente des Peripatetikers Diokles von Karystos,”
ABAW (1938) #3, pp. 1–46; F. Kudlien, “Probleme um Diokles von Karystos,” AGM (1963)
456 – 464; DSB 4.105–106, K.H. Dannenfeldt; KP 2.52–53 (#7), F. Kudlien; H. von Staden, “Jaeger’s
‘Skandalon der historischen Vernunft’: Diocles, Aristotle and Theophrastus,” in W.M. Calder III,
Werner Jaeger reconsidered (1992) 227–265; OCD3 470, J.T. Vallance; DPA 2 (1994) 772–774, R. Goulet;
P.J. van der Eijk, “Diocles and the Hippocratic Writings on the method of dietetics and the limits of
causal explanation,” in R. Wittern and P. Pellegrin, Hippokratische Medizin und antike Philosophie (1996)
227 – 259; Idem, “The systematic status of therapy in the Hippocratic Corpus and in the work of
Diocles of Carystus,” in I. Garofalo, et al., edd., Aspetti della terapia nel Corpus Hippocraticum (1999)
389 – 404; BNP 4 (2004) 424–426 (#6), V. Nutton.
Daniela Manetti
Diokle ̄s of Khalke ̄do ̄n (250 BCE – 95 CE)
A P., in G CMLoc 7.4 (13.87 K.), records his opium-based pill for
blood-spitting (phthisis?), containing acacia juice, hupokistos juice, pomegranate flower, red
coral, Samian earth, etc.
Fabricius (1726) 141.
PTK
Diokle ̄s of Magnesia (1st c. BCE?)
If he was the friend of the poet Meleager, Diokle ̄s belongs to the 1st c. BCE. His Compendium
of Philosophers is quoted in D L 7.49–53 on Stoic logic, and some sayings
are attributed by him to Antisthene ̄s (D.L. 6.12–12). Otherwise, information from his works
is biographical and concerns mainly Cynic and Stoic philosophers, preserved in Diogene ̄s
Laërtios.
V. Celluprica “Diocle di Magnesia come fonte della dossografia stoica in Diogene Laerzio,” Orpheus
10 (1989) 58–79; Jørgen Mejer “Diogenes Laertius and the Transmission of Greek Philosophy,”
ANRW 2.36.5 (1992) 3580.
Jørgen Mejer
Diome ̄de ̄s (250 BCE – 95 CE)
A P. in G CMLoc 4.7 (12.759 K.) recommends Diome ̄de ̄s’ two
collyria taken with rainwater and an egg: one composed of pompholux, psimuthion,
DIOME ̄DE ̄S