RE 4A.1 (1931) 563, W. Kroll; F. Lasserre, “Abrégé inédit du commentaire de Posidonios au Timêe
de Platon (Pap. Gen. inv. 203),” Protagora, Antifonte, Posidonio, Aristotele (1986) 71–127; W. Hübner,
“Zum Planetenfragment des Sudines (Pap. Gen. inv. 203),” ZPE 73 (1988) 33–42; Idem, “Nachtrag
zum Planetenfragment des Sudines. P. Gen. inv. 203,” ibid. 109–110.
Francesca Rochberg
Sueius (70 – 40 BCE)
Minor Roman poet contemporary with C whose corpus included two agricultural
poems. A quotation from the first, the Peasant Salad (Moretum), offers a learned history of
Alexander the Great’s introduction of the walnut from Persia to Greece. The title of the
second work, Chicks (Pulli), suggests an identification of the author with the equestrian
M. Seius famous for his innovations in raising chickens, geese, ducks, pigeons, cranes, and
peacocks (V, RR 3.2.7–14, P 10.52) – though the variant spellings of the name
may preclude this connection.
Ed.: Speranza (1971) 56–57; FLP frr. 1 – 4.
RE 4A.1 (1931) 580–581, W. Kroll, w/2A.1 (1921) 1121–1122, Fr. Münzer; NP 11.1081, P.L. Schmidt.
Philip Thibodeau
Suennesis of Cyprus (ca 420 – 350 BCE)
H’ pupil, among the first to describe the vascular system. According to his
theory, there are two vessels, one originating from the eye, running along the eyebrow and
through the lung under the breast. The other originates in the left eye and runs through the
liver down to the right kidney and testicle. Another vessel runs from the right breast to the
left buttock, and still another from the left buttock to the right breast (A, HA 3.2.3
[511b 24–30]; Hippokrate ̄s Concerning the Nature of Bones 8 [9.174–176 Littré]). Most likely,
this theory originated from observations of the neurological system, that is an injury on one
side of the head might affect the other side of the body.
RE 4A.1 (1931) 1024 (#2), F.E. Kind; E.D. Phillips, Aspects of Greek Medicine (1973) 190.
Robert Littman
C. Sulpicius Gallus (170 – 150 BCE)
Learned Roman consul. He wrote a book on Greek astronomy known to V (in P
2.53). Sulpicius described the celestial spheres (C Rep. 1.23) and, on the occasion of a
solar eclipse, mollified Paulus’ army by explaining its causes (Pliny 2.9).
KP 5.424–425 (#I.17), M. Deißmann-Merten; J. Evans, The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy
(1998) 80, 82, 455 n.9; NP 11.1100 (#I.4), T. Schmitt.
Bruno Centrone
Summaria rationis geographiae in sphaera intelligenda (after 150 CE)
In the tradition of P, treated the proportions of the oikoumene ̄ and the globe in
stades and degrees, the connection between oikoumene ̄ and the Sun’s path at the equinox,
the northern parallels and the klimata.
Ed.: GGM 2.488–493.
A. Diller, “The Anonymous Diagnosis of Ptolemaic Geography,” Classical Studies in Honor of W.A. Oldfather
(1943) 39–49; RE S.10 (1965) 794–800, E. Polaschek; HLB 1.512.
Andreas Kuelzer
SUEIUS