Numisianus (130 – 150 CE)
Student of Q, father of H, and teacher of P. Wrote commen-
taries on the H C, A, E 2, and perhaps other works.
G traveled to Corinth in 152 CE to hear him, the “most famous” student of Quintus,
and then on to Alexandria with the same goal: Anat. Admin. 1.1 (2.217–218 K.). Gale ̄n
reports the doctrines of Pelops and Numisianus usually without distinction.
Grmek and Gourevitch (1994) 1513–1518; Manetti and Roselli (1994) 1581–1582; Ihm (2002)
#180–184; BNP 9 (2006) 906, V. Nutton.
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Numius (300 BCE – 540 CE)
A A 13.20 ( p. 694 Cornarius) cites him for the use of wild marjoram as an
antidote for asp bites. The name Numius is otherwise unattested, though Nummius is found
from the 3rd c. CE (PIR2 N-225 to 241), and Numisius is an old Republican nomen (MRR
1.398, 435, PIR2 N-207 to 220); probably read N H or perhaps
N?
Fabricius (1726) 351.
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Numphis of He ̄rakleia Pontike ̄ (ca 280 – 245 BCE)
Greek historian, son of Xenagoras, born ca 310 BCE, author of a local history of He ̄rakleia
(13 books) and a universal history of Alexander and his successors (24 books). His 1st c. CE
compatriot, Memno ̄n (7.3, 16.3) presented Numphis in his own He ̄rakleian history as a
leader of the He ̄rakleians expelled by Seleukos I. Numphis convinced his fellow exiles to
renounce restoration of the property taken from their parents and return to the city. They
did so and were received with pleasure. Later Numphis led the He ̄rakleian embassy to the
Celts who had devastated the territory of the He ̄rakleians because of their alliance with
Mithradate ̄s I. By paying 5,000 gold pieces to the army of the Celts as a whole and 200
pieces to each leader, Numphis persuaded them to withdraw from the country. Numphis’
work was a source for both Memno ̄n and P T. Surviving fragments
reveal no particular geographical orientation other than the traditional historiographic
allusions to toponyms and to ethnographic details. Numphis is sometimes confused with
N S who in his periplous of Asia referred to Sappho’s love
affair with Phao ̄n (Ath., Deipn. 13 [596e]).
FGrHist 432 (Numphis); FGrHist 434 (Memno ̄n).
Daniela Dueck
Numphodo ̄ros (240 – 200 BCE)
O (Coll. 49.21–22: CMG 6.2.2, pp. 30–33) preserves the “chest” of Numphodo ̄ros,
a square spanner to which a patient was tied for treating dislocated legs (cf. also V
7.pr.14; C 8.20.4; G UP 7.14 [3.572–575 K.] and MM 6.5 [10.442–443 K.]). A
screw-thread engaged a wheel, on each side of which were eyelets for ropes. The axle and
wheel turned together drawing in the ropes to stretch the patient. Probably the same man
NUMISIANUS