Eugamios (250 BCE – 300 CE?)
The Antidotarium Brux. 39 (T P p. 374 Rose) cites his (or her?) remedy
against dropsy: ashed dove, feathers and all, savin juniper, pounded and sifted, and myrrh,
in pure African wine, warmed. The name is only attested in the feminine (LGPN 2.165), but
Eugamos is found (LGPN).
RE 6.1 (1907) 984 (#2), M. Wellmann.
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Eugeneia (120 BCE – 80 CE)
A, in G CMLoc 7.6 (13.114–115 K.), records her remedy for lung and
other disorders, containing saffron, galbanum, kostos, laurel, licorice, misu, white and
long pepper, opium, and terebinth, in gum and honey. The use of pepper might suggest a
terminus post of ca 120 BCE. Kühn prints -ΕΙΟΣ, but the name is primarily feminine until the
2nd c. CE (LGPN). Cf. E and O ̄.
RE 6.1 (1907) 988 (#11), M. Wellmann.
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Eugenios (Alch.) (300 – 800 CE?)
Extant is a short treatise entitled Eugenios’ On the Doubling (i.e., doubling the quantity of a
metal, CAAG 2.39). In the early table of MS Marcianus gr. 299, a short treatise On the Sacred
Art is attributed both to H and to Eugenios. But in the alchemical corpus, the
treatise appears only under Hierotheos’ name. The 10th c. catalogue of books, Kita ̄b
al-Fihrist, mentions the Eugenios’ name among the authors of alchemy.
Ed.: CAAG 2.39
Berthelot (1885) 131, 176; Dodge 2 (1970) 852, 983; Letrouit (1995) 83.
Cristina Viano
Euge ̄rasia (?) (120 BCE – 90 CE)
A P., in G CMLoc 9.2 (13.244 K.), preserves her spleen remedy:
squill, boiled and strained, bryony, Cretan-carrot-seed, iris, cedar-berry, myrrh, panax,
parsley, pepper, and ground bitter vetch, in vinegar and Falernian wine (famed since the
mid-2nd c. BCE: C, Brut. 287; P 14.55, 76); stored away from light. Her name
seems otherwise unattested, but cf. the later Euge ̄ros (LGPN 1.172) and E.
Fabricius (1726) 156; Parker (1997) 145 (#50).
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Euhe ̄meros (200 BCE – 25 CE)
Cited four times by S L in A P. in G CMLoc 4.7,
for eye-medicines (12.774, 777–778, 788 K.). Three of the four use saffron and opium, with
various minerals; two of the four use “Italian” or Falernian wine, rendering a date after 200
BCE more likely.
RE 6.1 (1907) 972 (#4), M. Wellmann.
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