RE S.6 (1935) 297, W. Kroll.
GLIM
Menandros of Prie ̄ne ̄ (325 – 90 BCE)
Wrote a work on agriculture excerpted by C D (V, RR 1.1.8–10,
cf. C, 1.1.9). To judge from references in P (1.ind.8, 11), he wrote about
livestock and bees.
RE 15.1 (1931) 764–765 (#19), Ernst Diehl, and S.6 (1935) 297, W. Kroll.
Philip Thibodeau
Me ̄na ̄s (350? – 540 CE)
Cited by A A 10.5 ( p. 567 Cornarius) for a remedy involving bdellium,
cassia, saffron, myrrh, spikenard, etc. Aëtios 7.42 ( p. 351 Cornarius) and 7.110 ( p. 391
Cornarius) appear to refer to the collyrium of “Monus,” where Olivieri (CMG 8.2) reads
respectively ΠΙ (7.44, p. 297) and “Nonnos” (7.114, p. 382). The name Me ̄na ̄s is frequent in
the early Byzantine period (PLRE 3 [1992], cf. LGPN), e.g., the patriarch of Constantinople
536 – 552 CE (ODB 1339 – 1340, A. Kazhdan), under the influence of the Egyptian cult of
the mythical martyr Me ̄na ̄s (ODB 1339, A. Kazhdan and N.P. Sˇevcˇenko).
Fabricius (1726) 329, 341.
PTK
Menekrate ̄s, Ti. Claudius (10 – 40 CE)
Syll. 803 (Rome) records that he wrote 156 books establishing his own medical system, and
was an imperial physician; the Latin nomen accords with G’s confused notice placing
him after H, before A, and contemporary with A M,
CMLoc 6.9 (12.989 K.), if the emperor could be Tiberius. His pharmaceutical work, Written-
in-Full Emperor, gave recipes whose quantities were in words not numerals, but even those
became corrupted, which led D to put recipes into verse: Gale ̄n, CMGen 2.6
(13.502–503 K.), 7.9 (13.994–996), Antid. 1.5 (14.31–32 K.). A few of his recipes are pre-
served – A P., in Gale ̄n CMGen 6.14 (13.937–938), and K, in
Gale ̄n CMLoc 5.3 (12.846) – but he did not write on theriac: Gale ̄n, Theriac (14.306).
S, as preserved in C A, approves the internal-abscess drug of
some Menekrate ̄s, Chron. 5.126 (CML 6.1, p. 930), and disparages the epilepsy-treatment of
Menekrate ̄s ZEOPHLETENSIS, Chron. 1.140 ( p. 512), plausibly emended by Drabkin to
refer to M Z S, famed for epilepsy treatments.
BNP 3 (2003) 410 (#IV.2), V. Nutton.
PTK
Menekrate ̄s of Elaious (330 – 300 BCE)
A student of X K, and approved by M S.
Credited with two works, Foundations (of cities), which claimed that the Ionian coast and
neighboring isles were originally Pelasgian (S 13.3.3), and Periodos of the Helle-
spont, which explained the Halizones of Iliad 2 as a mountainous tribe near Murleia
MENANDROS OF PRIE ̄NE ̄