(2.2–3) and then lists the signs in the unusual order from toes to head (2.4–30) as well as
color, hair, stride, voice and the like (2.31–42). It ends with a list of character types and their
signs (2.43–61), much in accordance with the equivalent list in the Aristotelian Corpus
Physiognomy.
Ed.: I. Repath, “The Physiognomy of Adamantius the Sophist,” in Swain (2007) 487–547.
V. Rose, Aristoteles Pseudepigraphus (1863) 697; RE 1.1 (1893) 343 (#1), M. Wellmann; KP 1.61,
F. Kudlien; PLRE 2 (1980) 6; BNP 1 (2002) 133 (#1), V. Nutton.
Sabine Vogt
Adamantios of Alexandria, Ioudaios (ca 412/415 CE)
Jewish iatrosophist, who was expelled with other Jews from Alexandria by the patriarch
Cyril (cf. K) in ca 412 or 415 CE, went to Constantinople to be christened by the
patriarch Atticus, and returned to live in Alexandria (So ̄cr. Hist. eccl. 7.13.54–57). So ̄crate ̄s
calls him a “sophist of medical works” (iatriko ̄n logo ̄n sophiste ̄s). Given his interest in medicine,
he might be the author of a metrology and recipes quoted by O (Syn. 2.58; 3.24–25;
3.28–29; 3.35; 7.6; 9.57 = CMG 6.3, pp. 50–51, 73–77, etc.); if so, these must have
been written before Oreibasios’ death around 400 CE. Two recipes in A A
(8.29.1–47, CMG 8.2, pp. 438–440, for toothache and 15.6 [Zervos 1909: 23] for tumor of
the throat) are also likely to be his.
Aëtios cites him as “Adamantios the sophist” in quoting the first of those recipes (8.29.2)
and in an excerpt of a treatise “on the winds” (peri anemo ̄n) (3.163). It has been doubted,
however, whether the latter treatise was written by the same author, as it resembles Peri-
patetic meteorology and might stem rather from the 3rd c. CE (Rose 1.22, Nutton).
Ed.: V. Rose, Anecdota Graeca et Graecolatina (1864) 1.1–26 (introduction) and 1.27–52 (text).
RE 1.1 (1893) 343 (#1) M. Wellmann; KP 1.61, F. Kudlien; PLRE 2 (1980) 6 (#1); BNP 1 (2002) 133
(#1), V. Nutton.
Sabine Vogt
Adeimantos (325 BCE – 75 CE)
Listed by P as an authority on “foreign” trees, such as cinnamon, and distinguished
from medical authorities, 1.ind.12.
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PTK
A ⇒ A
Adrastos of Aphrodisias (60 – 170 CE)
Peripatetic philosopher. Two inscriptions of Aphrodisias (ca 110 and ca 185 CE) mention
an Adrastos, but neither is identified as a philosopher (scholars have suggested identification,
not proven). His commentary on the Categories – along with that of A – is mentioned
by G. Semantic and metaphysical considerations play an important role in the passage
from his commentary on the Physics quoted – through P – by S.
Besides some philological works on the history and the internal structure of the Peri-
patetic corpus, a commentary – or at least an extended discussion of the technically
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