Ko ̄dios Toukos (250 BCE – 95 CE)
A P., in G Antid. 2.7 (14.147 K.), cites him for an antidote (also used
by K) composed of rhamnos root-bark, horehound, wild rue, skordion, and
“sacred plant,” in honey, or for deadly poisons in honeyed wine and olive oil. The name is
unattested and presumably corrupt, and we might read Ko ̄dinos, Ko ̄dalos (cf. Ath., Deipn.
14 [624b]), Kodros, Kotus, C T, Clodius Tucca, or Clodius of Ko ̄s. Perhaps
interpretable as a syncopated pseudonym, like “Kodamos” for N IV in A-
in Gale ̄n, CMGen 6.14 (13.929 K.). If Krateros is not the terminus ante, perhaps
emendable to M A.
Fabricius (1726) 123.
PTK
Koiranos (ca 45 – 65 CE)
Teacher and delator of Rubellius Plautus, executed 62 CE (T, Ann. 13.19, 14.22,
14.59); P 1.ind.2 cites Koiranos, evidently as a writer of cosmology.
RE 11.1 (1921) 1061 (#6), H. von Arnim.
PTK
Ko ̄lo ̄te ̄s of Lampsakos (280 – 240 BCE)
Epicurean philosopher who studied with E when Epicurus established a school at
Lampsakos ca 310 – 307 BCE. In his most famous work, Concerning the Fact that One is not Able
to Live in accordance with the Doctrines of Other Philosophers, he attacks the views of earlier
philosophers including D, P, M, E, So ̄crate ̄s,
P, Stilpo, and Arkesilaos (who became head of the skeptical Academy ca 268). The
work was especially concerned to refute the skeptical doctrine of “withholding assent”
(epokhe ̄) championed by Arkesilaos. Ko ̄lo ̄te ̄s’ attack was later answered by P’s
Against Ko ̄lo ̄te ̄s. Ko ̄lo ̄te ̄s wrote other polemical works, including Against Plato’s Lysis, Against
Plato’s Euthydemus, Against the Gorgias, and Against the Republic. Some fragments from letters that
Epicurus wrote to him survive.
RE 11.1 (1921) 1120–1122 (#1), H. von Arnim; Long and Sedley (1987) §22R, 68H, 69A; P.A. van der
Waerdt, “Colotes and the Epicurean Refutation of Skepticism,” GRBS 30 (1989) 225–267; OCD3
366, D. Obbink; BNP 3 (2003) 583 (#2), M. Erler.
Walter G. Englert
Komerios/Komarios/Ko ̄marios of Egypt (1st c. CE/7th c. CE?)
Probably pseudonymous author of a lost alchemical Discourse to K (CMAG 2.20).
Komerios is discussed in the [Book] of the Philosopher and High-Priest Komarios Teaching Kleopatra
the Divine and Sacred Art of the Stone of Philosophy (CMAG 4.400–403). Komerios has long
been placed near the beginning of the Hellenistic alchemical tradition, as early as the 1st
c. CE (Taylor 1930: 116), but Letrouit (1995: 83–84), believing he post-dates S
A, argues for a 7th c. or later date.
F.S. Taylor, “A Survey of Greek Alchemy,” JHS 50 (1930) 109–139.
Bink Hallum
KOMERIOS/KOMARIOS/KO ̄MARIOS OF EGYPT