sight, causing madness, “comas,” and liver complaints, hence explaining why goats avoid it
(Pliny 20.119). C preserves his emollient for joint pain including liquid pitch, realgar,
and pepper, fused with a little beeswax (5.18.30).
RE 3.2 (1899) 2509–2510 (#15), S.1 (1903) 299, M. Wellmann.
GLIM
Khrusippos of Knidos (II) (280 – 250 BCE)
Son of Aristagoras, student of Aethlios (D L 8.89, cf. 7.186), and teacher
of E K, S (E.), A, A
K, and M; he eschewed the practice of venesection (as dangerous and inef-
fective), and advocated redistributing blood using tourniquets: G, On Venesection, Against
Erasistratos 1, 2, 7 (11.148, 151–152, 175–176 K. = pp. 16, 18, 31–32 Brain), Venes. Rome 2, 7
(11.197, 230 K. = pp. 43, 58 Brain). Theorized, as did Erasistratos, that all fevers were
caused by undigested residues of food (Gale ̄n, In Hipp. Epid. VI = CMG 5.10.2.2, p. 44), and
was renowned as an anatomist (Gale ̄n, In Hipp. Nat. Hom. 15.136 K., listed with D,
P, P, P, etc.). In therapy, he avoided strong purgatives
(Venes. Rome 9 [11.245 K. = p. 65 Brain]), prescribed wine in cold water for cholerics (Venes.
Eras. 7 [11.171 K. = pp. 29–30 Brain]), and steam baths for dropsy (Gale ̄n, Use of Respir-
ation 4 [4.495–496 K.]). Treated a patient who believed she had swallowed a snake by
prescribing an emetic, then slipping a snake into the vomit-basin (In Hipp. Epid. II = CMG
5.10.1, pp. 207–208). Gale ̄n had trouble obtaining his works (Venes. Rome 5 [11.221 K. =
p. 54 Brain]), and they probably did not survive the 3rd c. CE. Often confused by scholars
with K K (I).
RE 3.2 (1899) 2510–2511 (#16) + S.1 (1903) 299, M. Wellmann; BNP 3 (2003) 293–294 (#3),
V. Nutton.
PTK
K S ⇒ C S
Kide ̄nas (Kidinnu) of Babylo ̄n (ca 150 – 50 BCE?)
According to S (16.1.6), a mathe ̄matikos (astronomer) from Babylo ̄n. The name
Kidin(nu) appears in the colophons of two cuneiform ephemeris tables (ACT 122 and
123a). The tablet (ACT 122) is designated “terse ̄tu of Kidin... concerning (the years) 208
to 210” (Seleukid Era, i.e., 104– 102 BCE). The table, part of which provided the key
for Kugler’s pioneering analysis of the Babylonian astronomical “System B,” published
in his Babylonische Mondrechnung (1900), concerns new moons for the years mentioned. In
the colophon of the second tablet, ACT 123a, the table is called a “terse ̄tu of Kidinnu,”
concerning new and full moons for two years.
V V 9.12 says he used “H for the Sun, S and Kide ̄nas
and A for the Moon, and again Apollo ̄nios for both types (solar and lunar).”
The methods he refers to here are not given, so any comparison with actual Babylonian
eclipse prediction schemes is impossible. P (2.38–39) gives values for the maximum
elongations of the inner planets from the Sun, Venus (46 ̊) and Mercury (22 ̊), based on
T for Venus and Kide ̄nas and S (I) for Mercury.
KP 3.207, B.L. van der Waerden; Neugebauer (1975) 611, 804.
Francesca Rochberg
KIDE ̄NAS (KIDINNU) OF BABYLO ̄N