son. His fame must soon have spread widely, if the comic poet Plato (425– 385 BCE) men-
tioned him; he is credited with the saying that his teacher was Time (I S
1.8.40a). Ancient scholars ascribed to him the Knidiai Gnomai (G, In Hipp. Epid. VI
[CMG 5.10.2.2, p. 55]) and also some works attributed to Hippokrate ̄s such as On diet
(Gale ̄n, Alim. Fac. 1 [6.473 K.]; In Hipp. Reg. Acute 15.455 K. = CMG 5.9.1, p. 135). Listed
among ancient anatomists (Gale ̄n, Uteri Diss. 2.900 K.), he named the labia minora “cliffs
(kremnoi)” (E; R, Onom. Anthr. Mor. 112, p. 147 DR) and thought that pleuritis
concerned lungs (C A, Acut. 2.96 [CML 6.1.1, p. 194]). He cured phthi-
sis by making patients suck woman’s milk (Gale ̄n, Prob. Prav. Alim. Succ. 6.775 K.; MM 7.6
[10.474 K.]) and used cautery frequently (Plato, fr. 200 PCG). In gynecology, he utilized both
drugs (So ̄r. Gyn. 1.35.3 [CMG 4, p. 24; CUF v. 1, p. 32]; 4.14.2 [CMG 4, p. 144; CUF v. 2 ,
p. 11]) and mechanical tools such as a ladder, by which, in order to expel the placenta, he
shook women, or, to cure uterine prolapse, he suspended them by the feet (So ̄r. Gyn. 4.14.3
[CMG 4, pp. 144–145; CUF v. 4, p. 25]; cf. 4.36.7 [CMG 4, p. 149; CUF v. 4, p. 12]). In
general, Eurupho ̄n thinks that diseases arise if the abdomen fails to evacuate, and then
digestive residues rise to the head (L 4.31–40).
RE 6.1 (1907) 1342–1344 (#5), M. Wellmann; KP 2.455, F. Kudlien; Grensemann (1975) 4–15;
J. Jouanna, Hippocrate. Maladies II (CUF 1983) 40–48; BNP 5 (2004) 218–219, V. Nutton.
Daniela Manetti
Eurutos of Kroto ̄n or Taras (400 – 375 BCE)
Student of P and teacher of E, Pythagorean either from Kroto ̄n
(I VP 148), Taras (D L 8.45; Iamblikhos VP 267) or maybe
Metapontion (Iamblikhos VP 266, 267). By using pebbles to outline shapes, Eurutos deter-
mined the number which governed various objects, e.g., “man,” “horse” (A Meta-
phys. 14.5 [1092b8–13]; T, Metaphys. 11 [6a19]).
DK 45; BNP 5 (2004) 223 (#2), C. Riedweg.
GLIM
Eusebios of Caesarea, pseudo (500 – 560 CE?)
A MS attributes an Abridged choice selection on weights and measures to Eusebios bishop of
Caesarea and church historian (ca 290 – 340 CE). This fragment lists in Greek some 60 short
entries: a list of capacity measures both for grain and liquids and their equivalents, followed
by equivalence-exchange rates of weights and coins. This table is a conflation of quotations
from several metrological sources.
MSR 1 (1864) 149–151, 276–278.
Mauro de Nardis
Eusebius son of Theodorus (380 – 400 CE)
His father, T P, addressed Physica to him (4.2), and the Antidotarium
Bruxellensis 49 (p. 377 Rose) attributes a remedy for dysentery to him (sour wild grapes, pips
and all, crushed and dried, and stored in glass, to be given with aged wine). Eusebius the
archiater was active in Rome ca 382 CE (Symm., Epist. 2.18 and 5.36–37: RE 6.1 [1907] 1369
EURUTOS OF KROTO ̄N OR TARAS