E
Egnatius (of Spain?) (ca 100 – 50 BCE?)
Wrote a poem De Rerum Natura in at least three books, of which M (Sat. 6.5.2, 12)
preserves two very short passages: in fr. 1 Blänsdorf, Egnatius speaks about metal working,
and in fr. 2, he describes the Moon (Phoebe ̄) setting or disappearing at dawn. Egnatius
lived between Accius and V (150– 50 BCE), and probably was a contemporary of
L. Bergk and Baehrens identified him with the Egnatius Celtiber mentioned by
Catullus (Carm. 37 and 39), a rather unlikely conjecture. It is also impossible to ascertain if
Egnatius were an imitator of Lucretius or wrote independently.
Ed.: N. Marinone, “I frammenti di Egnazio,” in Poesia Latina in frammenti (1974) 179–199; FLP 147 –
148.
BNP 4 (2004) 842 (#I.4), P.L. Schmidt.
Claudio Meliadò
Eire ̄naios (250 BCE – 25 CE)
Pharmacist whose remedy for uitiligo (psoriasis) comprised alkuoneion, natron, cumin, and
dried fig leaves, pounded with vinegar, to be applied under sunlight and washed off to
prevent corrosion (C 5.28.19C).
RE 9.2 (1916) 2032 (#3), H. Gossen.
GLIM
Ekhekrate ̄s of Phleious (400 – 360 BCE)
Student of P and of E (D L 8.46; I VP
251, 267), he described So ̄crate ̄s’ last day to Phaedo, and sympathized with the view that
the soul “is a kind of harmony” (P, Phaedo 57a, 88d–e). A later legend suggested that
Plato visited Ekhekrate ̄s at Lokri (pseudo-Plato Epist. 9 [358b]; C Fin. 5.87; Val. Max.
8.7. ext.3).
DK 53; BNP 4 (2004) 781 (#2), C. Riedweg; OCD3 501 C. Roueché.
GLIM
Ekphantos of Surakousai (400 – 350 BCE?)
Ekphantos belongs to a group of later Pythagoreans active in Surakousai in the first part
of the 4th c. (DK 50–51, 55). As distinct from other later Pythagoreans, Ekphantos’