Me ̄trodo ̄ros of Tralleis (ca 550 – 600 CE)
Grammatikos who compiled or penned 30 epigrams presenting arithmetical puzzles
of aliquot parts (Greek Anthology 14.116–146). He lived some time after D
(cf. 14.126), and is probably the grammatikos brother of A and A
T.
BNP 8 (2006) 839 (#9), M.G. Albiani.
PTK and GLIM
Mikio ̄n (100 – 40 BCE?)
His Rhizotomoumena is cited after P by P 20.258, as prescribing hip-
pomarathron for snake bite, apparently in reference to N, The ̄r. 596. (For hip-
pomarathron Durling 1993: 185 suggests either Prangos ferulacea [L.] Lindl. or Cachrys ferulacea
[L.] Calest.; cf. D MM 3.71; G, Simpl. 7.12.5 [12.67–68 K.].) Mikio ̄n is
also cited by the Schol. Nik. The ̄r. 617, on tithumallos (“petty spurge” and other names, i.e.,
Euphorbia peplus L.: Dioskouride ̄s MM 4.164; Gale ̄n, Simples 8.19.7 [12.141–143 K.]; Durl-
ing 1993: 311). The name, rarely spelled with -kk-, is almost unknown after the 1st c. BCE
(LGPN).
RE 15.2 (1932) 1555 (#5), W. Kroll.
PTK
Mile ̄sios (280 BCE – 120 CE)
Wrote on seminal ducts, denying physiological distinction between nocturnal emissions
resulting from dreams of coitus wherein semen is completely discharged (oneiro ̄gmos) and is
not (oneiropole ̄sis: probably S, in C A, Chron. 5.82 [CML 6.1.2,
p. 904]). He also believed that weakness in seminal ducts results in discharging blood rather
than semen during coitus (Chron. 5.87 [ p. 906]). The rare name is attested from the 3rd c.
BCE: LGPN 1.314, 3A.301, 3B.286, 4.337.
Fabricius (1726) 338.
GLIM
Milo ̄n (450 – 300 BCE?)
I S 1.29.3 records Milo ̄n’s theory that lightning is produced when water
is “broken” (rhag-), diurnally by the sun, and nocturnally by the stars. The latter claim
suggests an early date, when the stars were imagined as nearby. The name is most
frequent in the 4th–3rd cc. BCE, but is attested as late as the 3rd c. CE: LGPN 1.314, 2.315,
3A.301.
RE 15.2 (1932) 1677–1678 (#7), W. Kroll and A. Modrze; DPA 4 (2005) 522, R. Goulet.
PTK
Miltiade ̄s (250 BCE – 120 CE)
Physician, perhaps Erasistratean, argued that some diseases are exclusive to women
(S, Gyn. 3.2 [CMG 4, p. 94; CUF v. 3, pp. 2–3]). The name is very common at
Athens (LGPN 2.314–315), but rare elsewhere (LGPN 1.314, 3A.301).
RE 15.2 (1932) 1705 (#7), K. Deichgräber.
GLIM
ME ̄TRODO ̄ROS OF TRALLEIS