“Ethiopian” cumin, myrrh, parsley, two kinds of pepper, spikenard, etc., in dried goat’s
blood and honey.
PLRE 2 (1980) 638.
PTK
Iulianus Imp. (330 – 363 CE)
Cited in f. 242 of MS Parisinus gr. 2327: “Thus is accomplished the precept of the Emperor
Iulianus.” Berthelot finds this significant, since Iulianus consorted with magician students of
I and himself practiced theurgy.
Berthelot (1885) 145.
Cristina Viano
L. Iulianus Vertacus (300 – 470 CE)
Writer on arithmetic and astrology, used by A (Sidonius Apollinaris, Ep. 8.11.10;
Carmen 22.pr.3).
PLRE 1 (1971) 952.
GLIM
Iulianus (of Alexandria?) (ca 140 – 160 CE)
G met Iulianus (“Julian”), the Methodist physician, some time during his youthful
sojourn in Alexandria: “.. .more than twenty years ago, since when he has written hand-
book upon handbook, always changing them and altering them, never content with what he
has written.. .’ (MM 1.7.6 [10.53 K.] = Hankinson 1991: 27). Iulianus had studied under
A C. Thanks to Gale ̄n’s acidic logic and nuanced condemnation,
little remains of Iulianus’ writings, even though one can, through painstaking reading, dis-
cern the main outlines of his works on the definitions of health and disease. Gale ̄n’s Against
Iulianus so completely demolishes Methodism’s medical logic that Tecusan simply edits
and translates the entire tract to suggest the involuted and precise philosophical sarcasm
applied to Methodist doctrine, also explicated by Hankinson (1991: 145–160).
Despite his scorn for the Methodists, Gale ̄n (CMGen 2.21 [13.557 K.]) preserves the
complicated recipe, suggesting an expertise in pharmacology, for Iulianus’ enaimos – a thick,
adhesive, styptic plaster that “sealed wounds shut,” to avoid stitches (cf. H
C, Fractures 24; T HP 4.7.2). The enaimos, prepared in bulk, probably
was an ordinarily available plaster to treat wounds suffered by gladiators; it had a long
“shelf-life,” since it included 50 parts each of litharge and Dead Sea bitumen (asphaltos),
copper flakes (12 parts), and khalkitis (four parts). The beeswax (50 parts), carefully
roasted pine-resin (15 parts), and the finest Bruttian pine-pitch (50 parts), ensured the
enaimos’ adhesive properties. Finally, smaller quantities of frankincense, myrrh, two kinds of
birthwort (Aristolochia spp.), and aloe-latex ( prob. the “best,” viz. Aloe perryi Baker from
Socotra) gave the plaster a mild analgesic and antibiotic quality, the latter augmented with
oak-gall (ke ̄kis). Those 13 ingredients, plus galbanum, were compounded in “old olive oil.”
Ed.: E. Wenkebach, Galeni Adversus Lycum et Adversus Iulianum libelli (1951) = CMG 5.10.3, pp. 33–70;
Tecusan (2004) 290–331 (fr.111), with trans.
IULIANUS IMP.