Epidauros (?) (120 BCE – 80 CE)
A, in G CMGen 7.7 (13.985 K.), gives his ointment for circumcision:
thapsia root, pepper, veal fat, frankincense, balsam-wood, resin, and beeswax. The rare
name is attested in the 3rd–1st cc. BCE: LGPN 1.156, 2.148. (For toponyms as personal
names, cf. E and K.)
Fabricius (1726) 150.
PTK
Epidikos (300 BCE – 500 CE)
Taught that the kosmos was caused by nature (phusis): I S 1.21.6,
Pho ̄tios, Bibl. 167 (p. 114a). The name is rare, attested in Akhaia: LGPN 3A.146, and in
Plautus’ eponymous comedy.
DPA 3 (2000) 182, R. Goulet.
PTK
E ⇒ D P
Epigene ̄s (Med.) (ca 390? – 310 BCE)
Physician, claimed that rancid water purified seven times would not putrefy again (P
31.34), from T On Water (Wellmann 1900). In On Fatigue (p. 398 W.), Theo-
phrastos may cite an Epigene ̄s arguing that fatigue occurs primarily in veins and tendons.
The MS, however, is corrupt, and the name is Furlanus’ (reasonable) restoration for
ΕΠΙΓΟΝ, so perhaps cf. E.
M. Wellmann, “Zur Geschichte der Medicin im Altertum,” Hermes 35 (1900) 349–384 at 354–358; RE
6.1 (1907) 66 (#18), Idem; W.W. Fortenbaugh, R.W. Sharples, and M.G. Sollenberger, Theophrastus of
Eresus: On Sweat, On Dizziness, On Fatigue (2003) 279–280.
GLIM
Epigene ̄s of Buzantion (120 – 30 BCE?)
P (7.160) cites Epigene ̄s (who “studied the stars”), together with B and P-
, as astrological authorities on the destined length of life; he also invokes Epigene ̄s as a
source on the antiquity of Babylonian astronomical observations (7.193), saying they went
back 720,000 years.
Epigene ̄s claimed that the maximum possible human lifespan was less than 112 years, a
value that may be evidence for the astrological application of a Babylonian style scheme for
the rising times of the zodiacal signs, adapted for Alexandria where the longest to shortest
day ratio is 7:5, the longest day (M) is 3,30;0 ̊ (14 hours), and the constant difference is 3;20 ̊.
The longest life, derived from the quadrant with the greatest rising time, is found from ½M
- 2d, hence 111;40 ̊ for Alexandria. Epigene ̄s’ value might represent a rounding of this
result.
RE 6 (1907) 65–66 (#17), A. Rehm; Honigmann in P. Mich. 3 (1936) 310–311; Neugebauer (1975) 721.
Francesca Rochberg
EPIDAUROS (?)