Mousaios “the boxer” (350 BCE – 75 CE)
Prescribed the rubbing of decapitated muloikon beetles on the skin, for lepra, according to
P 29.141 (cf. M). For a boxer as medical writer, cf. F or T
A (M. I). The Musaeus cited by Pliny 1.ind.21–27, with H, H, and
Sophokle ̄s the tragedian, presumably intends the early Greek prophet.
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PTK
Mucianus (560 – 590 CE)
Translated into Latin G’ treatise on musical theory (C Inst. 2.5.2),
as well as 34 homilies of I K on the Christian Letter to the Hebrews
(1.8.3).
RE 16.1 (1933) 411 (#3), W. Enßlin.
PTK and GLIM
Muia, pseudo (250 BCE – 150 CE)
Neo-Pythagorean; daughter of P and wife of Milo ̄n of Kroto ̄n according to
P, V.Pyth. 4 and I, V.Pyth. 267. An apocryphal letter to Phyllis has
been transmitted under her name. The letter indicates how to hire a wet-nurse and particu-
larly emphasizes measure and balance in the child’s upbringing.
Ed.: Thesleff (1965) 123.5–124.8.
H.J. Snyder, Woman and the Lyre (1989) 110–111 (trans.); A. Städele, Die Briefe des Pythagoras und der
Pythagoreer (1980) 267–281 (comm.); DPA 4 (2005) 573–574, Bruno Centrone.
Bruno Centrone
Mulomedicina Chironis (ca 300 CE?)
Two closely related Latin MSS, both from the second half of the 15th c., transmit the single
most comprehensive work on equine medicine that has survived from antiquity. Probably
the main source of V’ Digesta artis mulomedicinalis, its redaction goes back to the
4th if not the 3rd c. CE. A number of passages preserved in Greek within the Greek
collection of veterinary writers (Hippiatrika) provides close parallels, making it almost certain
that the Mulomedicina is mainly based on Greek writings now partly lost, but preserved
here in Latin translation. Among its ten books, the structure of Books 3 and 4 (§§ 114 – 421)
closely resembles the structure of the Hippiatrika in presenting extracts from a number of
writers excerpted in sequence. Similarly, a collection of recipes (starting in §796 and extend-
ing to the very end = §999) concludes the treatise. Book 1 is devoted to phlebotomy and
cauterization, Book 8 (§§ 741 – 774) to reproduction, while the books in between roughly
follow the order a capite ad calcem (from head to hoof). This order seems to have been
disturbed at an early time during the transmission, because even Vegetius complains about
it in his preface. It is unclear how often the text was redacted or augmented; the presenta-
tion echoes that of therapeutic manuals on human medicine from Imperial times, and it is
evident how much the authors (apart from A, parts of whose work survive within
the Hippiatrika, other names – e.g. S, P, and – a clear pseudonym – Chiron
the Centaur, cannot be linked to known fragments) wished to achieve a standard of
MOUSAIOS “THE BOXER”