Hermolaos (Geog.) (ca 530 – 560 or ca 690 – 710 CE)
Grammatikos at Constantinople, wrote the extant epitome of S
B’ Ethnika. Souda E-3048 states he dedicated his work to the emperor Justinian,
meaning either Justinian I (525–565) or II (685–695, 705–711). Likewise uncertain is the
inclusion of contemporary notes while making the epitome.
RE 8.1 (1912) 891 (#2), A. Gudeman; RE 3A.2 (1929) 2374–2375, E. Honigmann; HLB 2.37; PLRE 2
(1980) 1032, 3 (1992) 593; ODB 1954, A. Kazhdan.
Andreas Kuelzer
Hermolaos (Pharm.) (120 BCE – 450 CE)
C F 29.9 (CUF, p. 62) and A A 7.104 (CMG 8.2, p. 364) record
two versions of his water-based collyrium, one with pompholux, copper, saffron, myrrh,
aloes, acacia, and the Egyptian incense kommi; the other adds spikenard, opium, and Indian
buckthorn. The same recipes are repeated by A T (2.21 Puschm.);
and M uses both.
Fabricius (1726) 182.
PTK
Hermo ̄n of Egypt (120 BCE – 10 CE)
An Egyptian temple-scribe (hierogrammateus) who published collyria, one recorded by H,
in G CMGen 5.2 (13.776–777 K.), involving galbanum and terebinth, which others
attributed to E; and another by C 6.6.24, containing aloes, antimony, cassia,
cinnamon, saffron, kostos, myrrh, nard, poppy “tears,” psimuthion, etc. A
A 15.13 (Zervos 1909: 39–40) records Hermo ̄n’s I-plaster, also attributed by some
to Epigonos. Cf. also G, and perhaps N .
RE 8.1 (1912) 894 (#10), H. Gossen.
PTK
Hermophilos (120 BCE – 95 CE)
A P., in G CMLoc 4.7 (12.781 K.), records his “thalasseros” col-
lyrium, containing calamine, white pepper, verdigris, etc. in gum and water; repeated by
A A 7.114 (CMG 8.2, p. 388) and P A 7.16.46 (CMG 9.2,
p. 344), unattributed. The name is more often spelled Hermaphilos: LGPN.
von Staden (1989) 583–584.
PTK
Hermotimos of Kolopho ̄n (360 – 310 BCE)
Extended the work of E and T, discovered many elementary proposi-
tions, and wrote on loci (P In Eucl. p. 67.20–23 Fr.).
Lasserre (1987) 17.
Ian Mueller
HERMOLAOS (GEOG.)