information. Together with T T, Lukos was considered an author-
ity on the western part of the oikoumene ̄. Fragments of his works, many preserved in
the paradoxographical compilation of A K, include, for instance,
information on the mixture of cold and hot water in certain seas, on solar effects in Libya,
and on the long-lived honey-eating inhabitants of Corsica.
FGrHist 570.
Daniela Dueck
Lunkeus (250 BCE – 95 CE)
A P., in G CMLoc 4.7 (12.778 K.), records his scar- and callous-
softener composed of aloes, calamine, roasted copper, galbanum, hematite, myrrh,
opium, verdigris, etc., in rainwater.
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PTK
Lupus (of The ̄bai?) (100 BCE – 400 CE)
The “Laurentian” list of medical writers (MS Laur. Lat. 73.1, f.143V = fr.13 Tecusan)
includes “Lupus Pelopis,” usually emended to “Lupus of Thebes,” but perhaps “Lupus,
student of P S” is meant; if so, the date-range would be ca 150 – 190 CE
(cf. also L M, student of Q). Cf. also E, H,
and P K.
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PTK
Lusias (ca 100 BCE – 35 CE)
Greek physician, probably a follower of A B. C (5.18.5) pre-
serves Lusias’ multi-use emollient good for abscesses, parotid swellings, joints, painful
heels, and digestion compounded from opopanax, storax, galbanum, ammo ̄niakon
incense, bdellium, beeswax, beef suet, dried iris, barley, and peppercorns, pounded with
iris ointment. A P., in G CMLoc 7.5 (13.49–50 K.), quotes his arte-
riake ̄ compounded from saffron, myrrh, licorice, frankincense, cassia, and peppercorns, in
Cretan must and Attic honey. S, Gyn. 3.1 (CMG 4, p. 94; CUF v. 3, p. 3) refers to a
Chronic Diseases written by a follower of Askle ̄piade ̄s of Bithunia: editors print ΛΟΥΚΙΟΣ
but the MS has (Ε)ΛΑΙΟΥΣΙΟΣ, very likely identifiable with our physician. C
A cites a LVCIVS (sometimes emended to LYSIAS), probably a Methodist
(Chron. 2.59 [CML 6.1.2, p. 578.27]), as author of a Chronic Diseases in at least four books
(4.79 [CML 6.1.2, p. 818.12]). He recommended patients suffering from throat inflamma-
tion take, before eating, dry-parched figs soaked in wine or sip hot wine and water mixed
with realgar and an egg-white or colts-foot root juice (Chron. 2.111 [CML 6.1.1, p. 610.17]).
He also prescribed induced vomiting after meals for patients with stomach or bowel ailments
(Chron. 4.79 [above]).
KP 3.836 (#7), F. Kudlien; BNP 8 (2006) 36 (#9), V. Nutton.
Alain Touwaide
LUSIAS