M ⇒ V M
Maecius Aelianus (100? – 155 CE)
The oldest man among G’s teachers, outstanding in experience and kindness, who
once, when a plague afflicted Italy, saved people using his antidote (Theriac for Pamphilianus
14.298–299 K.); the same man is credited with an epitome of muscular anatomy (Diss. Musc.
18B.926–927, 935, 986 K.), based on his unnamed father’s work. Kühn reads ΜΕΚΚΙΟΣ,
an otherwise unattested name (LGPN, MRR, PIR2), but the old republican gentilicium Maecius
is sometimes rendered ΜΑΚΚΙΟΣ (Geffcken). (Grmek and Gourevitch [1994] 1498, n. 13,
to explain the father as N, suggest reading “H,” whom Gale ̄n’s
description does not fit.)
RE 1.1 (1893) 488 (#2), M. Wellmann; 14.1 (1928) 233 (#2), J. Geffcken.
PTK
M D ⇒ D M
Mae ̄s Titianus of Macedon (50 – 110 CE)
Composed a report on the overland trade with China, preserved by M T in
P 1.11. The name Mae ̄s is unusual (LGPN 1.295, 2.296, 3B.268: mostly 2nd/1st
c. BCE); and Pape-Benseler suggest maeitai (“babble”) as the etymology. Instead, it may
be an error for the Latin nomen Maesius (cf. Maesius Titianus: ILS 1.1083, ca 150 CE), or
an attempt to transcribe a Hebrew name usually rendered “Maasia” (as in Ezra 10.18,
Nehemiah 3.23, etc.); if the latter, Mae ̄s may have been from the Jewish community
of Thessalonike ̄. The non-Republican cognomen is attested from the early 1st c. CE: CIL
6.5194 (“Augustan”), LGPN 2.434.
RE S.11 (1968) 1365, K. Ziegler.
PTK
Magistrianus (ca 60 – 100 CE?)
A A 16.39 ( p. 883 Cornarius = Zervos 1901: 57) quotes Magistrianus’ brief
remedy for abscesses of the breasts (chopped earthworms mixed with barley meal and
quaffed), and thrice more cites him: 13.126 ( p. 742 Cornarius), 13.134 ( p. 753 Cornarius),
and 14.55 ( p. 800 Cornarius), once within a quotation from A. Probably
Magistrianus predates Arkhigene ̄s by a generation or so, and presumably writes in Greek.
The name seems otherwise unattested (LGPN, CIL, PIR).
Fabricius (1726) 313.
John Scarborough
Magne ̄s or Magnus (200 BCE? – 460 CE)
Published Logistika, a treatise on numerical computations cited by E in his com-
mentary on A’ Measurement of a Circle (302.3 Heiberg), criticizing Magne ̄s’ calcu-
lation of circumferences of circles via multiplication and division of myriads as difficult to
follow. Orinksy suggests that Magne ̄s is possibly identifiable with T M
(P, In Eucl. p. 67 Fr.). Cf. P G; N (M.).
RE S.6 (1935) 237 (s.v. Magnes), K. Orinsky; DPA 4 (2005) 245, R. Goulet.
GLIM
MAECIUS AELIANUS