diagnosis and therapy on a par with human medicine. Accordingly, medical historians must
pay more attention to this source than has hitherto been the case. Book 1 and some other
passages obviously derive from the doctrine of the Methodist school of medicine and have
not been exploited adequately. Nevertheless, after the first (and to date only complete)
edition in 1901, the language of the Mulomedicina has been studied intensively by Latinists
for whom it constituted a very important source of vulgar Latin (inspired by remarks in
Vegetius’ preface). While this view deserves to be challenged or bolstered with fresh argu-
ments, the Mulomedicina remains one of the most important (and often puzzling) sources of
technical Latin and veterinary expertise in late antiquity.
Ed.: E. Oder, Claudii Hermeri Mulomedicina Chironis (1901); other editions and translations in BTML
409 – 422.
K. Hoppe, Die Chironfrage (1933); RE 16.1 (1933) 503–513, K. Hoppe; Klaus-Dietrich Fischer, HLL
§513; W. Sackmann, “Eine bisher unbekannte Handschrift der Mulomedicina Chironis aus der
Basler Universitätsbibliothek,” ZWG 77 (1993) 117–119; Önnerfors (1993) 370–380; Adams (1995).
Klaus-Dietrich Fischer
Muo ̄nide ̄s (ca 150 – 50 BCE)
Neo-Pythagorean musician who some time after E, together with
E, discovered four new means (mesòte ̄s), added to the six already known
(I in Nikom. 2.28.6–11 [p. 116]). The name is apparently attested only on
Rhodes, in the 1st c. BCE: LGPN 1.323.
M. Timpanaro Cardini, I Pitagorici. Testimonianze e frammenti (1962) 2.436–439; DPA 4 (2005) 575, Bruno
Centrone
Bruno Centrone
Muro ̄n (250 BCE – 25 CE)
C records two dermatological recipes from Muro ̄n, against leikhe ̄n (5.28.18B), con-
taining raw sulfur, red natron, terebinth, pine pitch, frankincense, etc., and against alphos
(5.28.19D), containing sulfur, natron, alum, and myrtle.
RE 16.1 (1933) 1115 (blind cross-reference).
PTK
Mursilos of Me ̄thumna (300 – 250 BCE)
Wrote a local history of his native island Lesbos (Lesbiaka) and a paradoxographical treatise
(Historika Paradoxa). The former was cited by A K (as indicated
in the first part of Antigonou Historio ̄n paradoxo ̄n sunago ̄ge ̄, at 5; 15.3; 117–118), which
establishes an early 3rd c. date for Mursilos. Later writers to use his works include Dionusios
of Halikarnassos (A.R. 1.23.1–5; 1.28.4), S (1.3.19; 13.1.58), P (3.85; 4.65),
P (Arat. 3.5; De soll. anim. 36 [984E]), Athe ̄naios (Deipn. 13 [609f-610a]), and
Clement of Alexandria (Protr. 2.31). Hardly any of the scanty surviving fragments can be
assigned with certainty to either of the two known treatises, as they seem to have featured
the same mix of historical, etymological, and paradoxographical data. Mursilos was per-
haps the earliest author to collect mirabilia of contemporary life alongside natural (botanical
and ornithological) wonders.
MURSILOS OF ME ̄THUMNA