p. 354]); therapy for hudrophobia, according to Eude ̄mos, consisted of venesection,
administration of hellebore (type not specified), and application of cupping vessels (bodily
position also not designated [ibid., 3.134–135; Drabkin, p. 386; CML 6.1.1, p. 372]).
Eude ̄mos recorded the anecdote of a physician who had contracted hudrophobia; recog-
nizing his unhappy and painful fate, weeping, he dropped to his knees but seeing the tears
dripping onto his body, “he leaped up and tore his clothes to pieces” (ibid., 3.105 [Drabkin,
pp. 366–367; CML 6.1.1, p. 354]). To alleviate “cardiac disease” (a severe and constricting
pain in the upper chest, our angina pectoris), Eude ̄mos recommended an enema of cold water
(ibid., 2.219 [Drabkin, p. 286; CML 6.1.1, p. 278]).
Ed.: Tecusan (2004) 83, 91, 98, 103, and 107 (“Eudemus: Thematic Synopsis”).
RE 6.1 (1907) 904–905, M. Wellmann; B. Levick, Tiberius the Politician (1976); R. Seager, Tiberius,
2nd ed. (2005).
John Scarborough
Eude ̄mos “the Elder” (250 – 30 BCE)
Cited once by A, in G CMLoc 9.5 (13.291 K.), for a trokhiskos against
“dysentery” (compounded from saffron, “tubes” of cassia, nard, myrrh, alum, and poppy
juice). Designated “the Elder” presumably to distinguish him from the then-recent E
(M). The name is very frequent, and there is no need to identify with any other
medical Eude ̄mos.
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PTK
Eude ̄mos of Alexandria (285 – 235 BCE)
Greek anatomist, often quoted by G, together with his younger contemporary
H (Gale ̄n, In Hipp. Aph. 18A.7 K.), as among the great historical anatomists (De
Semine 2.6.13 [CMG 5.3.1, p. 200], In Hipp. Nat. Hom. 15.134 K., etc.). He seems to have
worked on bones (R, Onom. Anthr. Mor. 73 [p. 142 DR]), arteries and veins (Gale ̄n, UP
3.8 [Helmreich 1907: 148–149]), joints of hands and feet (ibid.), and the embryonic vascular
system (S Gyn. 1.57.4 [CMG 4, p. 42; CUF v. 1, pp. 56–57]). He apparently wrote on
the nervous system (Gale ̄n, On My Own Books 3 [2.108 MMH]).
RE 6.1 (1907) 904 (#17), M. Wellmann; KP 2.405, F. Kudlien; BNP 5 (2004) 147 (#4), V. Nutton; AML
280, K.-H. Leven.
Daniela Manetti
E A ⇒ E A
Eude ̄mos of Athens (380 – 300 BCE)
Drug merchant to be distinguished from later homonymous physicians (see A
VIII). He may have been active as early as the beginning of 4th c. BCE, if one can identify
him with Eudamos (Aristophane ̄s, Plut. 884), which is hardly certain. In order to demon-
strate that drugs have different effects according to the person, T (HP
9.17.2–3) contrasts Eude ̄mos, who, “after making a wager that he would experience no
after-effect before sunset, drank a quite modest dose” of hellebore and could not withstand
EUDE ̄MOS “THE ELDER”