Khalkideus (250 BCE – 95 CE)
A P., in G CMGen 5.4 (13.803–804 K.), records his wide-spectrum
plaster (“on the whole its power is amazing”): boil litharge and copper-flake in aged
olive oil, then add diphruges, beeswax, and pine resin; remove from heat and add
ammo ̄niakon incense (and the galbanum?), when cool, add birthwort, and apply. The
rare name is unattested after the 2nd c. BCE (LGPN).
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PTK
Kharetide ̄s of Paros (450 – 335 BCE)
Linked by A with A L as a writer of (lost) manuals on
agriculture, treating both crops and fruits (Politics 1.11 [1258b39–1259a2]). Like Apollodo ̄ros,
Kharetide ̄s may be counted among the earliest Greek technical writers on agriculture.
RE 3.2 (1899) 2131–2132, M. Wellmann.
Maria Marsilio
Kharias (330 – 310 BCE)
The mechanicians Kharias and D were students of P T, whose
improvements on ram-tortoise design they continued (A M. pp. 5, 10 W.;
V 10.13.3); they accompanied Alexander on campaign. The name Kharias is
widespread, but especially frequent at Athens (LGPN).
RE 3.2 (1899) 2133 (#11), Fr. Hultsch.
GLIM
Kharide ̄mos (50 BCE – 120 CE)
Mentioned by C A, Acute 3.118 (CML 6.1.1, p. 362), as denying that
hudrophobia specifically was a new disease, while rejecting A S’s
stronger claim that no disease was new. On the basis of CIG 3311 = Inschr. Smyrn. 1 (1982)
#536, identified as the father of the Erasistratean H S.
Although Kharide ̄mos is much rarer after the 1st c. BCE (LGPN), the identification is
uncertain.
RE 3.2 (1899) 2138 (#7), M. Wellmann.
PTK
Kharikle ̄s (120 BCE – 80 CE)
A, in G CMLoc 7.5 (13.94 K.), records his anodyne, based on henbane
and opium, and including Cretan-carrot seed; whereas A P., in Gale ̄n,
records three recipes, for duspnoia (CMLoc 7.6 [13.109 K.]), for colic (ibid. 9.4 [13.282])
and nephritis (ibid. 10.1 [13.329]), the second and third involving Cretan-carrot seed,
celery seed, and white pepper. He is also credited with two headache compresses, both
involving castoreum, laurel, roses, and sulfurwort root, dissolved in vinegar and rose oil;
soak a linen bandage in the result, shave the head, and wrap; leave on for a day: ibid. 2.1
(12.556–557, 558) = 2.2 (12.579, 581). The name is rare after the 1st c. BCE (LGPN), but he
KHALKIDEUS