that of A A (14.689, 698 K.). Similarly, the author’s concepts of
pulse and fever (14.729–730 K.), and phlebotomy and catharsis (14.733 and 759 K. respect-
ively) strongly resemble those of Athe ̄naios. The work is best understood as a mirror of the
intellectual and philosophical activity of the medical milieu in Rome before Gale ̄n (not
mentioned). The most recent physicians named are Leo ̄nidas and Arkhigene ̄s, yielding the
date-range (cf. pseudo-Gale ̄n, Def. Med.).
Fragments of a 6th/7th c. CE Latin translation are contained in one MS (BTML p. 87).
The work was translated into Arabic, possibly by H.unayn ibn Ish.a ̄q (808– 873 CE, Ullmann
1970: 139), and into Latin by Niccolò da Reggio (ca 1308 – 1345, Thorndike 1946: 226), and
again by Johann Gunther von Andernach ( Johannes Guinterius, 1505–1574). Its Greek text
was published in 1537 in Basel.
Ed.: 14.674–797 Kühn.
Wellmann (1895); Idem, “Demosthenes ΠΕΡI ΟΦΘΑΛΜΩΝ,” Hermes 38 (1903) 546–566; RE 7.1
(1910) 590.11–17, J. Mewaldt; L. Thorndike, “Translations of Works of Galen from the Greek by
Niccolo da Reggio (c. 1308–1345),” Byzantina-Metabyzantina 1 (1946) 213–235; F. Kudlien, “Die
Datierung des Sextus Empiricus und des Diogenes Laertius,” RhM 106 (1963) 251–254; Idem (1968)
1102; Kollesch (1973) 30–35; V. Boudon, Galien. Tome I (CUF 2007) 176–177, n. 1.
Alain TouwaideGale ̄n, pseudo, De Pulsibus ad Antonium (220 – 650 CE)
A few Byzantine MSS contain a text attributed to G (Diels 1 [1905] 113, S. [1908] 37),
entitled Peri Sphugmo ̄n pros Anto ̄nion Philomathe ̄ kai Philosophon (De Pulsibus ad Antonium Disciplinae
Studiosum et Philosophum), considered spurious since omitted from Gale ̄n’s On My Own Works.
The work provides a brief synthesis of sphygmology containing material mainly from Gale ̄n
and also from Pneumaticist physicians, for whom pulse was of primary importance as a
diagnostic tool (cf. A A). Temkin showed that it closely resembles
P’ treatise (1932: 56–66); it is extracted in several MSS under various authors: Vat.
graec. 280 in a commentary by “Io ̄anne ̄s of Alexandria” whose name is followed by a partial
erasure rewritten as tou epikle ̄thentos philoponos (sc. I A, P);
Paris, BNF, graec. 1884 and 2316, G N; Paris, BNF, graec. 2224, Meletios the
monk (9th c. CE?); and Paris, BNF, graec. 2324. These attributions, although highly problem-
atic, suggest the date-range. Widely circulated in the early-Byzantine world and possibly
receiving commentary in Alexandria, the work was transmitted also in the West through
Philaretos’ Latin translation, and via its assimilation into the Articella, the major Western
medical manual in the post-Salernitan and early-Renaissance periods.
Ed.: 19.629–642 Kühn.
H.A. Lutz, Leitfaden der Pulse dem Gale ̄n zugeschriebenen. Gale ̄ns Schrift über die Pulse an Antonius, den Freund der
Wissenschaften und den Philosophen (Übersetzung und Erläuterung) (1940).
Alain Touwaide
G ⇒ (1) A G; (2) S G
Gamaliel VI (d. 425 CE)
Jewish patriarch (nas i) and physician. “Gamaliel the patriarch,” most likely Rabban Gamaliel
VI, is cited by M B (23.77, CML 5, p. 408) as a source for a remedy
GALE ̄N, PSEUDO, DE PULSIBUS AD ANTONIUM