rue-seed, among other ingredients. For the cognomen cf. CIL 9.2693 and RE S.15 (1978)
124 (#316a), W. Eck: procos. Syria-Palestina, 186 CE.
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PTK
Leptine ̄s (I) (260 – 240 BCE)
Astrologer (mathematicus) at the court of Seleukos, who diagnosed his son Antiokhos’ love for
his step-mother Stratonike ̄ (a diagnosis also attributed to E): Val. Max.
5.7.ext.1.
RE 12.2 (1925) 2074 (#6), C.O. Thulin.
PTK
Leptine ̄s (II) (200 – 100 BCE?)
On the recto, in column 24 of P. P G 1, the last surviving column and
perhaps the end of this astronomical text written sometime in the 2nd c. before 165 BCE,
there is drawn an annulus divided into twelfths that are inscribed with the Greek names of
the zodiacal signs. In the same hand is written within the annulus the two-line caption,
“Celestial Circle/Oracles of Sarapis.” Beneath the annulus is the sentence, “Work men so
that you may work no longer,” which is followed by the lines, “To the kings/celestial/
instruction/oracles of Sarapis/xxxx of Leptine ̄s/oracles of Hermes.” Of these six lines “To
the kings/celestial/instruction/xxxx of Leptines” are written in the same hand as the rest
of the papyrus; whereas the other two are in the hand that inscribed the annulus. Such is
the meager and unpromising basis on which some have supposed that Leptine ̄s is the author
or redactor of the papyrus, or that the papyrus is a copy of an Instructio caelestis by an
otherwise unknown Leptine ̄s.
Neugebauer (1975) 686–687; NDSB 4.271–272, A. Jones.
Alan C. Bowen
Leukios (of Tarsos?), Kathe ̄ge ̄te ̄s (50 – 85 CE)
Greek physician, the teacher of A P., (see G, CMGen 2.17 [13.539 K],
3.9 [648], and CMLoc 7.6 [972]) and of K H (CMLoc 5.3 [12.827– 828
K.]), both of whom usually qualify him as teacher (kathe ̄ge ̄te ̄s), and so probably best-known
as a professor of pharmacology. A, in Gale ̄n CMLoc 3.1 (12.623 K.), attribut-
ing therapeutic innovations, does not call him “teacher.” A C
(Y), in Gale ̄n CMLoc 9.5 (13.292–293 K.), refers to a Loukios (Lucius), probably the
same man (Leukios is also once Loukios in Askle ̄piade ̄s, CMLoc 4.7 [12.787 K.], possibly to be
emended; cf. Solin 2003: 2.749), and records a book of remedies by him, including one for
dysentery compounded from opium, saffron, acacia, oak-gall, etc. (13.292); Andromakhos
also gives the ethnic (295), with a remedy for flux and empneumato ̄sis, composed of opium,
henbane, and various seeds. Diverse remedies are transmitted under Leukios’ name by
Askle ̄piade ̄s Pharm.: e.g., a rose collyrium (CMLoc 4.7, 12.767–768 K.); a calamine-plaster
for cicatrization (CMGen 2.14, 13.524 K.); an acne treatment with alum, Sino ̄pian earth,
and Corinthian verdigris, in vinegar (CMGen 5.3, 13.829 K.); an herbal plaster of pim-
pernel, opium, henbane, aloe, ammo ̄niakon incense, beeswax, aged olive oil, diligently
LEUKIOS (OF TARSOS?), KATHE ̄GE ̄TE ̄S