J. Vahlen, Ennianae poesis reliquiae, 3rd ed. (1928); E.H. Warmington, Remains of Old Latin, v. 1 (Loeb
1935); O. Skutsch, Ennius (1972); Idem, The Annals of Ennius (1985).
Bruno Centrone
Epagathos (100 BCE – 80 CE)
A, in G CMLoc 9.5 (13.300–301 K.), cites his enema for “dysentery,”
composed of orpiment, realgar, and wild pomegranate flower (balaustion), in old dry wine.
The Greek name is frequent from the 1st c. BCE, and unattested prior; his seeming nomen
“Deletius” is unexplained (perhaps “De ̄me ̄trios”?). If the remedy for blood-spitting, also
containing balaustion, cited ep’ agathou kathe ̄ge ̄tou by Andromakhos, ibid. 7.4 (13.79), is by the
same man, perhaps emend ∆ΗΛΗΤΙΟY to ΚΑΘΗΓΗΤΟY (“teacher”; and thus set the
terminus post as ca 40 CE).
Fabricius (1726) 136.
PTK
Epainete ̄s (100 BCE – 100 CE?)
Greek toxicologist, who wrote on iology (The ̄riaka), often mentioned by pseudo-A
P (On Venomous Animals and Poisons), who calls him an herbalist (rhizotomos) and
presents under his name various remedies for intoxication: leopard’s bane (53), hemlock
(63), mandrake (65), opium poppy (64), henbane (66), deadly mushrooms (67), a plant called
black chameleon (70), bull’s blood (71), gypsum (72) and sea-hare (79). See E.
BNP 4 (2004) 1011 (#1), V. Nutton.
Arnaud Zucker
Epainetos (ca 90 BCE)
Writer of an On Cookery (Opsartutika) often mentioned by Athe ̄naios (esp. Deipn. 12 [506c]),
who preserves a fragment giving a recipe for muma (Deipn. 14 [662d]) and repeatedly quotes
him for lexical remarks on food, strongly suggesting that Athe ̄naios knew Epainetos’ book
through a grammarian (see Deipn. 9 [387e]). The titles On Vegetables and On Fishes, if not
erroneous, must have been chapters of On Cookery. The identification of Epainetos with
E, formerly accepted (and still plausible since gastronomy, dietetics and toxicology
are closely related), appears now at least doubtful.
RE 5.2 (1905) 2672–2673 (#9), L. Cohn; BNP 4 (2004) 1011 (#2), G. Binder.
Arnaud Zucker
Epaphroditos (Meteor.) (unknown date)
Wrote a “Commentary on A’ Discussion of the Halo (of the Moon) and the
Rainbow,” as noted by Ibn-al-Nadı ̄m from writing of the Aristotelian Yah.ya ̄ ibn-Adı ̄
(d. 974). Tha ̄bit ibn-Qurra’s (ca 826 – 901) Arabic translation has not yet been found in
Arabic MSS.
GAS 7 (1979) 230.
Kevin van Bladel
EPAPHRODITOS (METEOR.)