According to archaeological data, Dara’s urban projects were completed by Emperor
Anastasios I following the establishment of a military stronghold in 505– 507 CE. Proko-
pios’ fabrication of Justinian’s activities makes the true identity of Khruse ̄s difficult to
ascertain.
Warren (1976) 8; B. Croke and J. Crow, “Procopius and Dara,” JRS 73 (1983) 143–159; PLRE 3
(1992) 314.
Kostis Kourelis
Khrusippos (Agric.) (250 – 50 BCE)
Wrote On Agriculture; listed after E’ student K K (II)
(De ̄me ̄trios of Magnesia in D L 7.186). If the silence of D
U in V is significant, perhaps after 90 BCE.
RE 3.2 (1899) 2511 (#20), M. Wellmann.
PTK and GLIM
Khrusippos (Med.) (ca 100 BCE – 100 CE)
Follower of A B, wrote a medical work, in Book 3 of which he
considers the statements of predecessors including H and D on
worms (C A Chron. 4.114–115 [CML 6.1.2, p. 838]). His own theory on
worms was that the expulsion of dead worms is a dire sign only in dangerous cases,
indicating extreme weakness. In the last part of his book on catalepsy, he discussed the
signs of an imminent attack, which he distinguished from lethargy (Cael. Aurel. Acute
2.57, 64, 82 [CML 6.1.1, pp. 164–166, 170, 182]; Chron. 2.86 [p. 596], with N);
he prescribed sharp ointments, such as henna with pepper and natron or brine with sulfur
and bitumen, to treat numb or trembling limbs. C A lists Khrusippos
(or a homonym) among those “ancients” whose treatments for epilepsy failed (Chron. 1.140
[p. 512])
RE 3.2 (1899) 2511 (#19), M. Wellmann.
GLIM
Khrusippos of Knidos (I) (ca 385 – 335 BCE)
Physician, son of Erineos, student of P and E (D L
8.89–90), listed among P’s foreign authorities on drugs (1.ind.20–27, 29, 30). He is
probably the author of On Vegetables (Schol. Nik. The ̄r. 845; cf. Pliny 26.10), to which his
volume on the benefits of cabbage by body part (presumably “head-to-toe”) may have
belonged (20.78). Khrusippos suggested that cabbage heals flatulence, biliousness, and
wounds if applied with honey and left on for seven days; the brassicid also cures scrofula
and fistulas (20.93). Pliny reports Khrusippos’ opinions that kaukalis aids in conception
(22.83), and that gourds are bad to eat despite consensus on their benefit to the stomach and
to intestinal and bladder ulcers (20.17). He distinguished female from male parsley as hard,
with curlier leaves, thick stem, and a hot, sharp taste (20.113). He prescribed wild asparagus,
parsley, and cumin seeds for hematuria (Pliny 20.111). Bad for dropsy, sexual arousal, and
the bladder unless boiled in water (the juice kills dogs), but asparagus root, boiled in wine,
cures toothache. Khrusippos condemned basil as harmful to the stomach, urine, and eye-
KHRUSIPPOS (AGRIC.)