indicate that Pliny had first-hand access to his work, and was not simply relying on Cassius’
anthology. Varro’s “Nikesios of Maronea” is probably another miscopying of the same
name.
RE 7.2 (1912) 2608 (#14), L. Radermacher.
Philip Thibodeau
He ̄ge ̄side ̄mos (300 BCE – 77 CE)
Authority on aquatic animals, listed after T and before S (P
1.ind.9). He ̄ge ̄side ̄mos recounted the tale of Hermias from Iasos who, while riding on the
back of a dolphin, lost his life in a sudden storm. The dolphin, returning the boy to shore,
apparently felt responsible for the boy’s death and died on shore (9.27). Pliny preserves
the story as one in a series of dolphin-rescues. A similar story, without attribution, is
recounted in P (Sollert. Anim. 36 [984E–F ]) and A NA 6.15. Cf. L
B in Aelianus NA 2.6, and A K 55. Various forms
of the name are attested from the 7th c. BCE, those in Hag- being the most frequent:
LGPN 1.8, 2.6, 3A.9–10, 3B.5–6, 3B.9, and 4.5, in contrast to the rare form He ̄g-: 1.200,
4.150.
RE 7.2 (1912) 2608–2609, F. Jacoby; Thompson (1947) 54–55.
GLIM
He ̄ge ̄to ̄r (Med.) (220 – 50 BCE)
He ̄rophilean physician whose interests included pulse theory (G Puls. Dign. 3 [8.955
K.]; M On Pulses 3) and anatomy. Kollesch ( p. 73) considers -G
Def. Med. 220 (19.408–409 K.) a quotation from He ̄ge ̄to ̄r: preceded by clearly He ̄rophilean
definitions of rhythm, the proffered definition nearly duplicates Z’s: substituting
Ze ̄no ̄n’s taxis (orderly arrangement) for skhesis (relation: nor was it unusual for He ̄rophileans
to alter a predecessor’s theory by phrase or even word). In On Causes, He ̄ge ̄to ̄r censured
Empiricists for treating dislocated hips which often fail to remain set on analogy with
other joints (knee, finger, etc.). He ̄ge ̄to ̄r explained the problem from anatomy, citing a
ligament joining the thigh bone to the middle of the hip socket: if this ligament is torn,
the hip cannot be reset, and so an understanding of the hip’s anatomy enables accurate
diagnoses of treatable versus incurable dislocations. A K, who pre-
serves the passage, criticized the argument as inconsistent and misleading (CMG 11.1.1,
pp. 78–80).
Kollesch (1973); Smith (1979) 212–214; von Staden (1989) 512–514; OCD3 674, Idem; BNP 6 (2005)
54 – 55, A. Touwaide.
GLIM
He ̄ge ̄to ̄r of Buzantion (300 – 50 BCE)
Designed a ram-tortoise on a base with eight large timber wheels laminated with cold-
worked iron. To fixed rafters were attached lathe-turned windlasses with ropes from which a
battering ram, over 50m long, was suspended. Winches on the frame controlled the tension
of four thick ropes, wound around the battering ram which could be thrust backwards and
forwards, laterally (with a sweep of about 30m), or vertically (with an elevation of about
HE ̄GE ̄TO ̄R OF BUZANTION