P and others. A few geographical remarks are preserved: fr.32 Blockley
(Pho ̄tios, Bibl. pp. 179–180) on the Oasis in Egypt; fr.35 (p. 182) on the emerald mines of the
Blemmues, and fr.42 (p. 186) on the geography of H’s Odyssey.
Ed.: Blockley 2 (1982) 152–220.
PLRE 2 (1980) 798–799; BNP 10 (2007) 112 (#3), W. Portmann; NDSB 5.338–340, C. Viano.
PTK
Olumpionikos (?) (200 BCE – 90 CE)
A P., in G CMLoc 4.8 (12.753 K = A A 7.104
[CMG 8.2, p. 364]), preserves a multi-ingredient phaia-plaster (cf. E) attributed
to Olumpionikos, immediately effective against numerous severe afflictions including eye-
ailments (khe ̄mo ̄seis), and compounded from minerals (calamine, antimony, both burnt
and washed) and botanicals (acacia, Indian aloe, saffron, myrrh, opium poppy, gum), taken
with water, or used with an egg, to which Askle ̄piade ̄s adds pompholux and frankincense.
The name is otherwise unattested, and is perhaps to be emended to Olumpikos,
Olumpikhos, or Olumpio ̄n (LGPN).
(*)
GLIM
Olumpos of Alexandria (35 – 25 BCE)
Physician to K VII, assisted in her suicide, and published an account of her end
(P, Ant. 82.3–5 [FGrHist 198]). A (NA 9.61) explains that asp poison
spreads quickly, disappearing from the skin and thereby is difficult to detect, as in her death.
G (CMLoc 9.3 [13.261 K.]) preserves Olumpos’ recipe for an ointment of anise, car-
damom, licorice, Celtic nard, and panax in a beeswax, bovine fat, honey, terebinth, and
perfumed wine base. P A proclaimed his ability to heal prolapses and all
wounds with olive juices (3.22.22 [CMG 9.1, p. 180]) and preserves a remedy (perhaps by
O) compounded from 20 ingredients (including acacia, myrrh, saffron, verdi-
gris, rose, grapes, dates, spikenard, copper, antimony, psimuthion) mixed with rainwater,
standing for three days and nights (7.16.24 [CMG 9.2, p. 339]).
RE 18.1 (1939) 324 (#32), H. Diller; BNP 10 (2007) 118–119 (#15), V. Nutton.
GLIM
One ̄side ̄mos (ca 40 BCE? – ca 90 CE)
A, in G CMLoc 10.1 (13.327–328 K.), cites his recipes for kidney ailments,
between A M and H T: so perhaps post ca 40 BCE. For
the rare name, cf. LGPN 1.351 (of Ioulis, ca 300 BCE).
Fabricius (1726) 353.
PTK
One ̄sikritos of Astupalaia (315 – 295 BCE)
A student of Diogene ̄s of Sino ̄pe ̄, accompanied Alexander’s expedition to Asia, and was
sent as an envoy to the gymnosophists of Taxila. He was later appointed the pilot of
ONE ̄SIKRITOS OF ASTUPALAIA