directions for sowing seed (2.8.5, 2.10.8), and observed that the soil of freshly-cleared forest-
land rapidly declines in fertility (2.1.5). He read and critiqued his predecessors’ writings
(1.1.6, 3.3.2), and supplemented that reading with experience gained running his wife’s
farm in the Sabine country, as well as his own estate, located on the slopes of Mt. Vesuvius
(Varro 1.15.1).
GRL §202; Speranza (1971) 46–55; P.A. Brunt, “Cn. Tremellius Scrofa the Agronomist,” CR ns 22
(1972) 304–308; KP 5.937 (#4), M. Deißmann-Merten; NP 12/1.780 (#3), J. Fündling; OCD3 1549,
E. Badian.
Philip Thibodeau
Tribonianus of Side ̄ (540 – 580 CE?)
A jurist distinct from the homonymous contributor to Justinian’s code (Souda, T-957). This
Tribonianus wrote a verse commentary on P’s Kano ̄n, and several works on astrol-
ogy, as well as works on poetic diction and on H, all lost.
PLRE 3 (1992) 1339–1340.
PTK
T ⇒ P T
Trophilos (220 BCE – 420 CE)
I S’s Anthology (4.36.24–28 W.-H.) purports to contain four excerpts about
animals from the Collection of Wonderful Reports (Sunago ̄ge ̄ akousmato ̄n thaumasio ̄n) of a certain
Trophilos. Elsewhere in the Anthology a bon mot about the accomplished doctor is attributed
to Trophilos (4.36.9 W.-H.), but scholars prefer to change the rare name (not listed in any
of LGPN vv. 1–5A) to that of the famous physician, H. Because the four
paradoxographical fragments correspond almost verbatim (albeit with omissions) with four
paragraphs in the -A D M A (from
which there is one more fragment at 4.36.15 W.-H.), a textual corruption has also been
suspected in this case, to the effect that the actual quotation from Trophilos – perhaps to be
emended to He ̄rophilos again (so Roeper 569–570) or Pamphilos (so Giannini 131–132) – and
the name of A (as the source-citation of the ensuing excerpt from the Ausculta-
tiones) would have dropped out of the Stobaios MSS. Whatever the case may be, nothing
suggests that Trophilos was the true compiler of the pseudo-Aristotelian treatise, given its
longstanding attribution to Aristotle.
Ed.: PGR 392 – 393.
Th. Roeper, “Joannis Stobaei Florilegium,” Philologus 10 (1855) 569–571; RE 18.3 (1949) 1137– 1166
(§30, 1161), K. Ziegler; Giannini (1964) 131–132.
Jan Bollansée, Karen Haegemans, and Guido Schepens
Trupho ̄n of Alexandria (220 – 210 BCE)
Helped Illyrian Apollo ̄nia successfully resist the siege of Philip V of Macedon (214 BCE: Livy
24.40), by detecting the besieger’s excavations, using resonant vessels (cf. H 4.100),
and flooded the miners with heated water, pitch, sand, and dung (V 10.16.9–10).
RE 7A.1 (1939) 745–746 (#31), H. Riemann.
PTK
TRIBONIANUS OF SIDE ̄