between air and water, related to Aristotle’s aithe ̄r, to account for smell (Philoponos De Aet.
Mundi 13.15 [pp. 520–521 Rabe]).
Dillon (1996) 237–247; NP 12/1.59 (#1), M.-L. Lakmann.
PTK and GLIM
D T L ⇒ A,
Tekto ̄n (150 – 75 BCE?)
Designed a machine like a chair with armatures for attaching limbs which reduced a variety
of dislocations and fractures; the moving part was a beam running in grooves for regular
and smooth traction. Described by O Coll. 49.4, 49.24–25 (CMG 6.2.2, pp. 6–9,
36 – 41), presumably following H; mentioned also by G, In Hipp. Artic.
4.47 (18A.747 K.), and by C 8.20.4, as “Faber.” The device was improved by
H E. For the occupational name cf. Iliad 5.59, and Tekto ̄r of De ̄los
(LGPN 1.431, 1st c. BCE); cf. also H and P.
(*)
PTK
Telamo ̄n (250 BCE – 90 CE)
A P., in G CMGen 2.14 (13.528 K.), records his detailed instructions
for preparing a cicatrizing ointment, good also for anthrax: pine-resin, beeswax, quicklime,
litharge, and psimuthion, in olive oil. The simplicity of the recipe favors an early date;
cf. LGPN 3B.402, 4.329.
Fabricius (1726) 430.
PTK
Telephane ̄s (250 BCE – 80 CE)
A, in G CMGen 2.15 (13.532 K.), gives his “white” plaster of litharge,
psimuthion, frankincense, myrrh, and sagape ̄non, in olive oil. For the rare name
cf. LGPN 3A.424.
Fabricius (1726) 430.
PTK
T ⇒ V
T ⇒ E
M. Terentius Valens (25 – 40 CE)
S L includes among his teachers “Valens,” renowned for pharmaceutical
compounds designed as anodynes and anesthetics fundamental in surgeries (Scribonius
alludes to treatments of gladiators, and possibly soldiers: 91, 94). Among anesthetic recipes
for colicky intestinal pains, G cites via A a Terentius Valens (CMLoc
9.4 [13.279 K.]; again at 9.5 [13.292]), who is likely the Terentius twice cited through
A P., at CMLoc 4.7 (12.766 K.), for a rose-based collyrium, and at
CMGen 5.11 (13.827 K.). Textual corruption most likely explains Askle ̄piade ̄s’ citation of
M. TERENTIUS VALENS