Pro ̄tarkhos (Mech. and Pharm.) (220 – 180 BCE?)
Named only by C, as one of those who, like N and H
T (M.), built devices for the reduction of dislocations of the thigh (8.20.4); also
cited for an ear-ointment (5.18.18) and a remedy against scabies (5.28.16–18).
Michler (1968) 49, 99.
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Pro ̄tarkhos of Bargulia (150 – 120 BCE)
Epicurean mathematician whose student was D L (S
14.2.20), and to whom H addressed his appendix of E.
RE 23.1 (1957) 924 (#5), W. Aly.
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Pro ̄tarkhos of Tralleis (160 – 60 BCE)
Cited by I H in M, Sat. 1.7.19, on early Italy, and by S
B on the Hyperboreans who live in and beyond the Alps (which appear first in
P 2.14).
RE 23.1 (1957) 923–924 (#4), K. Ziegler.
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Pro ̄ta ̄s of Pe ̄lousion (120 BCE – 80 CE)
A, in G, CMLoc 10.2 (13.338 K.), cites his remedy against sciatica
and headache. A, in Gale ̄n, CMLoc 4.7 (12.787–788 K.), cites the “Proteus”
collyrium (a brand-name? emend to “ΠΡΩΤΑ ̄”?), containing calamine, khalkitis,
psimuthion, saffron, opium, white pepper, etc., in rainwater; A A 7.114
(CMG 8.2, p. 388), A T (2.47 Puschm.), and P A
7.16.43 (CMG 9.2, p. 343) repeat the prescription. The use of white pepper suggests the
terminus post.
RE 23.1 (1957) 924, H. Diller.
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Prothlius/Protlius (?) (150 – 378 CE?)
“Only physician saved by war,” came to Germany as a captive. He invented a plaster called
captiuum to treat the stricken daughter of a “king” (M. Aurelius is the only emperor known
to have been in Germany with a daughter, but her illness is otherwise unattested), and
for his success was rewarded and freed together with his fellow-captives. The plaster –
compounded from ocean water, natron, pure beeswax, roasted resin, sal ammoniac, opop-
anax, galbanum, the beak of a dove, old olive oil, birthwort, psimuthion, and the dung
of a white dog – was efficacious against scrofulous tumors, abscesses, punctures, and cal-
luses: “wherever you will have used it, you will praise it” extols Nicholas Myrepsus (1.202).
Kühn reads the name as “Protlius.” Neither variant is Greek or Roman, but perhaps
emendable to Procilius or Procilianus.
C.G. Kühn, Additamenta ad elenchum medicorum ueterum 25 (1837) 5.
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PRO ̄TARKHOS (MECH. AND PHARM.)