Proxenos (120 – 30 BCE)
Used by A M and commended by G, his “harmonious” remedy for long-
standing coughs and fevers consisted in white pepper, opium, cardamom, saffron, raw sulfur,
myrrh, white henbane seeds, and honey, administered with hydromel (Gale ̄n, CMLoc 7.2
[13.61 K.]). This name is attested from the 5th c. BCE to 1st c. CE (LGPN).
RE 23.1 (1957) 1034 (#15), H. Diller.
GLIM
Prutanis (250 BCE – 80 CE)
A, in G CMLoc 3.1 and 7.3, records two remedies of Prutanis. His
compound to treat auricular inflammation, according with H’, contained myrrh,
nard, saffron, burnt copper, opium, castoreum, and alum, taken with must when the sore is
running, when painful with rose oil (12.627–628 K.). Prutanis’ white pill for phthisis was
compounded of myrrh, henbane seed, opium, sturax, taken with staphis, must or a date
(13.73 K.). This rare name, attested from the heroic era into the 2nd c. CE (LGPN), primarily
in the Black Sea area where eight Prutaneis are known, is a cognomen of the Augustan era
and later (Solin 2003: 1.1090).
RE 23.1 (1957) 1158 (#6), H. Diller.
GLIM
-<N> ⇒ <N>Ptolemaios (Pharm.) (70 – 90 CE)
A P., in G, describes a pharmaceutical Ptolemaios as an acquaint-
ance, and records: (a) eye-ointment, with khalkitis, misu, realgar, cassia, malabathron,
myrrh, omphakion, opium, pepper, and saffron, in gum and rainwater (CMGen 4.7,
12.789 K.), (b) pain-killer in cases of blood-spitting (phthisis?), of henbane, mandrake,
opium, with saffron, cassia, etc. in Aminian wine (CMLoc 7.5, 13.101 K.), and (c) wound-
powder of pine-bark, calamine, copper-flake, roasted deer-antler, etc. (CMGen 5.14,
13.849–850 K.). Shortly thereafter, Askle ̄piade ̄s cites probably the same Ptolemaios, without
epithet, for another wound-powder, of roasted lead, orpiment, copper-flake, ashed papyrus,
and unfired sulfur (13.852–853 K.), and probably again, for a headache remedy (good for
skoto ̄matics and epileptics) based on white hellebore: CMLoc 2.2 (12.584 K.). (Michler
1968: 122–125 wrongly equates this pharmacist with C’ surgeon.) Cf. perhaps
P (E).
Fabricius (1972) 224, 228.
PTK
Ptolemaios (Med.) (250 BCE – 25 CE)
Surgeon whose recipe to treat ear ulcers is preserved in C (6.7.2B–C), immediately after
one by E. Diller distinguishes him from the homonymous Erasistratean
physician, because Ptolemaios utilizes completely different ingredients than the Erasistratean;
i.e., mastic, oak gall, omphakion, and pomegranate juice; Michler however argues that
Celsus is here giving recipes from Erasistratean sources.
PTOLEMAIOS (MED.)