ought to be ascribed to Lucillius, and a few others
Politicos vocatos arbitror quod vulgo Constantino- are manifestly borrowed from earlier poets, while
poli per compita canerentur.
Politicos vocatos arbitror quod vulgo Constantino- are manifestly borrowed from earlier poets, while
poli per compita canerentur.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c
p.
135, ed.
Bonn ; Tillemont,
sequently chosen. After the deposition of Nes-Hist. des Empereurs, vol. vi. p. 130 ; Cave, Hish
torius at the council of Ephesus (A. D. 431), Philip Litt. ad ann. 418, vol. i. p. 395 ; Oudin, De Scrip-
was a third time candidate for the patriarchate, but torib. Eccles. vol. i. col. 997 ; Fabric. Bibl. Graec.
was again unsuccessful. Nothing is known of him vol. vi. pp. 739, 747, 749, vol. vii. p. 418, vol. x.
after this. It has been conjectured that he was p. 691 ; Galland, Biblioth. Patrum, vol. ix. Prol.
dead before the next vacancy in the patriarchate c. 11; Lambecius, Commentar. de Biblioth. Cae-
A. D. 434, when his old competitor Proclus was saraea, lib. 6. vol. v. col. 289, vol. vi. pars ii. col.
chosen. Certainly there is no notice that Philip was 406, ed. Kollar. )
again a candidate : but the prompt decision of the 27. SOLITARIUS. The title Solitarius is given
emperor Theodosius in Proclus' favour prevented by bibliographers to a Greek monk of the time of
all competition, so that no inference can be drawn the emperor Alexius I. Comnenus, of whom nothing
from Philip's quiescence.
further seems to be known than what may be
Philip wrote, 1. Mulla volumina contra Impe- gleaned from the titles and introductions of his ex-
ratorem Julianum Apostatam. (Liberatus, Breviar. tant works. He wrote :- 1. Alóatpa, Dioptra, s.
c. 7; comp. Socrat. H. E. vii. 27. ) It is not clear Amussis Fidei et Vitae Christianae, written in the
from the expression of Liberatus, which we have kind of measure called “versus politici,"* and in
given as the title, whether Philip wrote many
works, , as is more likely, one work in many • These“ versus politici” are thus described by
parts, in reply to Julian. 2. 'lotopia Xplotsavin, the Jesuit Goar: “In versibus politicis, numerus
Historia Christiana. The work was very large, syllabarum ad cantum non ad exactae poëtices pros-
consisting of thirty-six Biblot or Bobría, Libri, odiam observatur. Octava syllaba, ubi caesura est,
each subdivided into twenty-four tópos or Aéros, medium versus tenet, reliquae septem perficiunt.
u 2
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292
PHILIPPUS.
PHILIPPUS.
μου;
the form of a dialogue between the soul and the humous) volume of the Bibliotheca Patrum of Gal-
body. It is addressed to another monk, Callinicus ; land ; but the editors, in their Prolegomena to the
and begins with these two lines :-
volume, c. 15, observe that they knew not on what
Πως κάθη και πώς αμεριμνείς και πώς αμελείς, ψυχή authority Galland had assigned it to Philip. Among
the pieces given as Appendices to the Dioptri, are
“Ο χρόνος σου πεπλήρωται· έξελθε του σαρκίου. | some verses in praise of the work and its author, by
one Constantine, perhaps the person addressed in
The work, in its complete state, consisted of five No. 2, and by Bestus or Vestue, a grammarian,
books; but most of the MSS. are mutilated or | Στίχοι κυρου Κωνσταντίνου και Βέστου του γραμ-
otherwise defective, and want the first book. Some Latinov, Versus Domini Constantini et l'esti Graine
of them have been interpolated by a later hand. matici. (Lambecius, Commentar, de Biblioth. Cue-
Michael Psellus, not the older writer of that name, saraca, lib. &. vol. v. col. 76-97, and 141, codd.
who died about A. D. 1078, but one of later date, 213, 214, 215, and 232, ed Kollar ; Cave, Hist.
wrote a preface and notes to the Dioptra of Litt. ad ann. 1095, vol. ii. p. 163; Oudin, De Scrip-
Philip. A Latin prose translation of the Dioptra torib. Eccles, vol. ii. col. 851. )
by the Jesuit Jacobus Pontanus, with notes, by 28. SOPHISTA. (No. 13. ]
another Jesuit, Jacobus Gretserus, was published, 29. STUDITA. In the notice of the Adrersaria
4to. Ingoldstadt, 1604 ; but it was made from Gerardi Langbaini contained in the Catalogus
a mutilated copy, and consisted of only four MStorum Angliae et Hiberniae, vol. i. p. 269, the
books, and these, as the translator admits in eighth volume of Langbaine's collection is said to
his Praefatio ad Lectorem, interpolated and trans- contain a notice, De Philippi Stulitae Historia
posed ad libituin. Philip wrote also :-2. Tą Graeca. Of the historian or his work there is, we
κατά πνεύμα νια και ιερεί Κωνσταντίνω περί believe, no notice in any extant writer ; and as the
πρεσβείας και προστασίας απόλογος, Epistola Apo- preceding article in Languaine's book is described
logetica ad Constantinum Filium Spiritualem et Sa- as Scholae Alexandrinae l'aedagogorum Successio,
cerdotem, de Differentia inter Intercessionem et Auri- and is probably the fragment of the work of Philip
lium Sanctorum. 3. Versus Politici, in the begin- of Side, already noticed [No. 26), we suspect that
ning of which he states with great exactness the “ Studitae” is an error for "Sidetae," and that the
time of his finishing the Dioptra, 12th May, A. M. Historia Graeca is no other than his Historia
6603, era Constantinop. in the third indiction, in the Christiana, which is termed Graeca, not because it
tenth year of the lunar Cycle = A. D. 1095, not 1105, treats of Grecian affairs, but is written in the Greek
as has been incorrectly stated. Cave has, without language. (Catal. MStorum Angliae, fa hoc. ;
sufficient authority, ascribed to our Philip two other Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. xi. p. 709. )
works, which are indeed given in a Vienna MS. 30. Of THEANGELA (Ó Ocayzeneús), a writer
(Codex 213, apud Lambec. ) as Appendices to the cited by Athenaeus (vi. p. 271, b) and by Sirabo
Dioptra. One of these works ( Appendix secunda), (xiv. p. 662). He wrote a history of Caria, the title
“Οτι ουκ έφαγε το νομικόν πάσχα ο Χριστός εν τω | or description of which is thus given by Athenaeus
δείπνο, αλλά το αληθινόν, Demonstratio quod (2. c. ), Περί Καρών και Λελέγων σύγγραμμα; and by
Christus in Sacra Coena non legale sed rerum come- Strabo more briefly, Kapiká. The work is lost.
derit Pascha, may have been written by Philip. Its Theangela, from which Philip received his desig-
arguments are derived from Scripture and St. Epi- nation, apparently as being a native of it, was a
phanius. The other work, consisting of five chapters, city on the most eastern promontory of Caria, not
De Fide et Cueremoniis Armeniorum, Jacobitarum, far from Halicarnassus. Of the age of Philip
Chatzitzariorum et Romanorum seu Francorum, was nothing is known, except that he was earlier than
published, with a Latin version, but without an Strabo ; but if there is any reason for identifying
author's name, in the Auctarium Novum of Com- him with Philip Isangelus (ó Eloargedeus), men-
béfis, fol. Paris, 1648, vol. i. col. 261, &c. , but was, tioned by Plutarch (No. 14), he must be placed
on the authority of MSS. , assigned by Combéns, after the time of Alexander the Great. (Vossius,
in a note, to Demetrius of Cyzicus [DEMETRIUS, De Hist. Graec. lib. iii. )
No. 17), to whom appears rightly to belong 31. THEOPOMPI EPITOMATOR. (Comp. Photius,
(comp. Cave, Hist. Litt. Dissertatio I. p. 6 ; Fabric. Biblioth. cod. 176. )
Bibl. Graec. vol. xi. 414). The Chatzitzarii (Xat. 32. Of THESSALONICA. (See below. ) (J. C. M. ]
6. 7 Śápioi) were a sect who paid religious homage to PHILIPPUS, of Thessalonica, an epigrame
the image of the Cross, but employed no other images matic poet, who, besides composing a large number
in their worship. The work of Demetrius appears of epigrams himself
, compiled one of the ancient
under the name of Philip in the fourteenth (post-Greek Anthologies. The whole number of epi-
grams ascribed to him in the Greek Anthology is
His recentiores duotoTedeūta, pariter cadentium nearly ninety ; but of these, six (Nos. 36-41)
exitum, quem rhythmum (rhyme) dicimus,addidere.
ought to be ascribed to Lucillius, and a few others
Politicos vocatos arbitror quod vulgo Constantino- are manifestly borrowed from earlier poets, while
poli per compita canerentur. ” Quoted in Lambec. others are mere imitations. (Comp. above, Phi-
Commentur. de Biblioth. Caesar, vol. s. lib. iv. col. Lippus, literary, Nos. 10 and 15. ) They include
397, note 2, ed. Kollar. The measure is retained nearly all the different classes of subjects treated of
in English as a ballad measure, and may be illus- in the Greek epigrammatic poetry,
trated by the old ditty of “ The Unfortunate Miss
The Anthology ('Aveonola) of Philip, in imi-
Bayley," the first two lines of which closely re-tation of that of Meleager, and as a sort of supple-
semble in their cadence those cited in the text:-
ment to it, contains chiefly the epigrams of poets
"A captain bold of Halifax, who lived in country who lived in, or shortly before, the time of Philip.
quarters,
These poets were the following: Antipater of
Seduced a maid who hung herself one morning Thessalonica, Crinagoras, Antiphilus, Tullius, Phi-
in her garters," &c.
lodemus, Parmenion, Antiphanes, Automedon
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PHILISCUS.
293
ܐܢܐ ܠܐ
Hea
est Guar
14l,
והה-35
Chiara
of Puig
le;
PHILIPPUS.
Zonas, Bianor, Antigonus, Diodorus, Evenus, and He is also mentioned by Galen, De Febr. Diffet.
some others whose names he does not mention. ii. 6, vol. vii. p. 347, De Plenit. c. 4, vol. vii. p.
The earliest of these poets seems to be Philodemus, 530. It is uncertain whether the Philippus of
the contemporary of Cicero, and the latest Auto- Macedonia, one of whose antidotes is quoted by
medon, who probably flourished under Nerva. Galen (De Antid. ii. 8, vol. xiv. p. 149), is the
llence it is inferred that Philip flourished in the same person.
time of Trajan. Various allusions in his own A sophist of this name is said by Aëtius (i. 4.
epigrams prove that he lived after the time of Au- 96, p. 186) to have promised immortality to those
gustus. (Jacobs, Anth. Graec. vol. xiii. pp. 934— persons who would engage to follow his directions,
936. )
[P. S. ] but it is not specified that he was a physician;
PHILIPPUS (DIATTOS), the name of several neither is it known whether the father of the cele-
physicians
brated physician, Archigenes, whose name was
1. A native of Acarnania, the friend and phy- Philippus (Suid. s. v. 'Apxiyérns), was himself a
sician of Alexander the Great, of whom a well-member of the medical profession. (W. A. G. ]
known story is told by feveral ancient authors. PHILISCUS (Alokos), a citizen of Abydus,
He was the means of saving the king's life, when who in B. C. 368 was sent into Greece by Ariobar-
he had been seized with a severe attack of fever, zanes, the Persian satrap of the Hellespont, to
brought on by bathing in the cold waters of the effect a reconciliation between the Thebans and
river Cydnus in Cilicia, after being violently heated, Lacedaemonians. He came well supplied with
B. C. 333. Parmenion sent to warn Alexander that money, and in the name of Artaxerxes IJ. ; but in
Philippus had been bribed by Dareius to poison a congress which he caused to be held at Delphi,
him ; the king, however, would not believe the in- he failed to accomplish his object, as the Thebans
formation, nor doubt the fidelity of his physician, refused to abandon their claim to the sovereignty
but, while he drank off the draught prepared for of Boeotia, and Lacedaemon would not acknow-
him, he put into his hands the letter he had just ledge the independence of Messenia. Upon this
received, fixing his eyes at the same time steadily Philiscus, leaving behind him a body of 2000
on his countenance. A well-known modern picture mercenaries for the service of Sparta, and having
represents this incident ; and the king's speedy been honoured, as well as Ariobarzanes, with the
recovery fully justified his confidence in the skill Athenian franchise, returned to Asia. Here, under
and honesty of his physician. (Q. Curt. iii. 6 ; cover of the satrap's protection, he made himself
Valer. Max. iii, 8, in fine ; Plut. Vit. Alex. c. 19; master of a number of Greek states, over which
Arrian, ii. 4 ; Justin, xi, 8 ; Diod. Sic. xvii. 31. ) he exercised a tyrannical and insolent sway, till
2. A native of Epeirus at the court of Antigonus, he was at last assassinated at Lampsacus by Ther-
king of Asia, B. C. 323–301. Celsus tells an sagoras and Execestus (Xen. Hell. vii. I. $ 27;
anecdote (De Med. ii. 21, p. 56) that, when ano- Diod. xv. 70; Dem. c. Aristocr. pp. 666, 667).
ther physician said that one of the king's friends, Diodorus places the mission of Philiscus to Greece
who was suffering from dropsy caused by his in- in B. c. 369, a year too soon.
[E. E. )
temperate habits, was incurable, Philippus under- PHILISCUS (thiokos), literary. 1. An
took to restore him to health ; upon which the other Athenian comic poet of the Middle Comedy, of
replied that he had not been thinking so much of whom little is known. Suidas smmply mentions him
the nature of the disease, as of the character of the as a comic poet, and gives the following titles of his
patient, when he denied the possibility of his re-plays:'Αδωνις, Διός γοναι, Θημιστοκλής, "Όλυμπος,
covery. The result justified his prognosis. Πανός γοναί, Ερμού και Αφροδίτης γοναι, 'Αρτέ-
3. A contemporary of Juvenal at Rome, about udos kal 'ATÓNiwvos. These mythological titles
the beginning of the second century after Christ. sufficiently prove that Philiscus belonged to the
(Sat. xiii. 125. )
Middle Comedy. The nativities of the gods, to
4. A contemporary of Galen, about the middle which most of them relate, formed a very favourite
of the second century after Christ, who belonged class of subjects with the poets of the Middle Co-
to the sect of the Empirici, and held a disputation medy. (Meineke, Hist. Crit. Com. Graec. pp. 278,
for two days with Pelops (probably at Smyrna), in &e. ) Eudocia omits the title 'Epuoù Kal Adpodirns
defence of their doctrines (Galen. De Libris Propr. yoval, and Lobeck has pointed out the difficulty of
c. 2, vol. xix. p. 16). It does not seem possible to seeing how the nativities of Hermes and Aphro-
decide with certainty whether this is the same dite could be connected in one drama (Aglaoph.
person who is frequently mentioned in different p. 437); a difficulty which Meineke meets by
parts of Galen's writings ; who wrote on maras- supposing that we ought to read 'Epuoù oval,
mus (De Differ. Febr. 1. 10, vol. vii. p. 315, De 'Appodinys yoval, as two distinct titles (Hist. Crit.
Marc. cc. 5, 6, 7, 9, vol. vii. pp. 685, 689, 694, pp. 281, 282). The Themistocles is, almost with-
701, De Caus. Pul. iv. 10, vol. ix. p. 176, De Methout doubt, wrongly ascribed by Suidas to the comic
Med. vii. 6, x. 10, vol. x. pp. 495, 706), on ma- poet Philiscus, instead of the tragie poet of the
teria medica (De Compos. Medicam. sec. Loc. vii. same name. Another play is cited by Stobaeus
1, vol. xiii. p. 14, De Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen. (Serm. Ixxiii. 53), namely the Ⓡidpyupoi, or, as
ii. 5, iii. 9, vol. xiii. pp. 502, 642), and on cata- Meineke thinks it ought to be, ºu ápyupos.
lepsy (Cael. Aurel. De Morb. Acut. ii. 10, p. 96 ; Philiscus must have fourished about B. C. 400,
conf. Gal. Comment. in Hippocr. “ Prorrhet. I.
sequently chosen. After the deposition of Nes-Hist. des Empereurs, vol. vi. p. 130 ; Cave, Hish
torius at the council of Ephesus (A. D. 431), Philip Litt. ad ann. 418, vol. i. p. 395 ; Oudin, De Scrip-
was a third time candidate for the patriarchate, but torib. Eccles. vol. i. col. 997 ; Fabric. Bibl. Graec.
was again unsuccessful. Nothing is known of him vol. vi. pp. 739, 747, 749, vol. vii. p. 418, vol. x.
after this. It has been conjectured that he was p. 691 ; Galland, Biblioth. Patrum, vol. ix. Prol.
dead before the next vacancy in the patriarchate c. 11; Lambecius, Commentar. de Biblioth. Cae-
A. D. 434, when his old competitor Proclus was saraea, lib. 6. vol. v. col. 289, vol. vi. pars ii. col.
chosen. Certainly there is no notice that Philip was 406, ed. Kollar. )
again a candidate : but the prompt decision of the 27. SOLITARIUS. The title Solitarius is given
emperor Theodosius in Proclus' favour prevented by bibliographers to a Greek monk of the time of
all competition, so that no inference can be drawn the emperor Alexius I. Comnenus, of whom nothing
from Philip's quiescence.
further seems to be known than what may be
Philip wrote, 1. Mulla volumina contra Impe- gleaned from the titles and introductions of his ex-
ratorem Julianum Apostatam. (Liberatus, Breviar. tant works. He wrote :- 1. Alóatpa, Dioptra, s.
c. 7; comp. Socrat. H. E. vii. 27. ) It is not clear Amussis Fidei et Vitae Christianae, written in the
from the expression of Liberatus, which we have kind of measure called “versus politici,"* and in
given as the title, whether Philip wrote many
works, , as is more likely, one work in many • These“ versus politici” are thus described by
parts, in reply to Julian. 2. 'lotopia Xplotsavin, the Jesuit Goar: “In versibus politicis, numerus
Historia Christiana. The work was very large, syllabarum ad cantum non ad exactae poëtices pros-
consisting of thirty-six Biblot or Bobría, Libri, odiam observatur. Octava syllaba, ubi caesura est,
each subdivided into twenty-four tópos or Aéros, medium versus tenet, reliquae septem perficiunt.
u 2
## p. 292 (#308) ############################################
292
PHILIPPUS.
PHILIPPUS.
μου;
the form of a dialogue between the soul and the humous) volume of the Bibliotheca Patrum of Gal-
body. It is addressed to another monk, Callinicus ; land ; but the editors, in their Prolegomena to the
and begins with these two lines :-
volume, c. 15, observe that they knew not on what
Πως κάθη και πώς αμεριμνείς και πώς αμελείς, ψυχή authority Galland had assigned it to Philip. Among
the pieces given as Appendices to the Dioptri, are
“Ο χρόνος σου πεπλήρωται· έξελθε του σαρκίου. | some verses in praise of the work and its author, by
one Constantine, perhaps the person addressed in
The work, in its complete state, consisted of five No. 2, and by Bestus or Vestue, a grammarian,
books; but most of the MSS. are mutilated or | Στίχοι κυρου Κωνσταντίνου και Βέστου του γραμ-
otherwise defective, and want the first book. Some Latinov, Versus Domini Constantini et l'esti Graine
of them have been interpolated by a later hand. matici. (Lambecius, Commentar, de Biblioth. Cue-
Michael Psellus, not the older writer of that name, saraca, lib. &. vol. v. col. 76-97, and 141, codd.
who died about A. D. 1078, but one of later date, 213, 214, 215, and 232, ed Kollar ; Cave, Hist.
wrote a preface and notes to the Dioptra of Litt. ad ann. 1095, vol. ii. p. 163; Oudin, De Scrip-
Philip. A Latin prose translation of the Dioptra torib. Eccles, vol. ii. col. 851. )
by the Jesuit Jacobus Pontanus, with notes, by 28. SOPHISTA. (No. 13. ]
another Jesuit, Jacobus Gretserus, was published, 29. STUDITA. In the notice of the Adrersaria
4to. Ingoldstadt, 1604 ; but it was made from Gerardi Langbaini contained in the Catalogus
a mutilated copy, and consisted of only four MStorum Angliae et Hiberniae, vol. i. p. 269, the
books, and these, as the translator admits in eighth volume of Langbaine's collection is said to
his Praefatio ad Lectorem, interpolated and trans- contain a notice, De Philippi Stulitae Historia
posed ad libituin. Philip wrote also :-2. Tą Graeca. Of the historian or his work there is, we
κατά πνεύμα νια και ιερεί Κωνσταντίνω περί believe, no notice in any extant writer ; and as the
πρεσβείας και προστασίας απόλογος, Epistola Apo- preceding article in Languaine's book is described
logetica ad Constantinum Filium Spiritualem et Sa- as Scholae Alexandrinae l'aedagogorum Successio,
cerdotem, de Differentia inter Intercessionem et Auri- and is probably the fragment of the work of Philip
lium Sanctorum. 3. Versus Politici, in the begin- of Side, already noticed [No. 26), we suspect that
ning of which he states with great exactness the “ Studitae” is an error for "Sidetae," and that the
time of his finishing the Dioptra, 12th May, A. M. Historia Graeca is no other than his Historia
6603, era Constantinop. in the third indiction, in the Christiana, which is termed Graeca, not because it
tenth year of the lunar Cycle = A. D. 1095, not 1105, treats of Grecian affairs, but is written in the Greek
as has been incorrectly stated. Cave has, without language. (Catal. MStorum Angliae, fa hoc. ;
sufficient authority, ascribed to our Philip two other Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. xi. p. 709. )
works, which are indeed given in a Vienna MS. 30. Of THEANGELA (Ó Ocayzeneús), a writer
(Codex 213, apud Lambec. ) as Appendices to the cited by Athenaeus (vi. p. 271, b) and by Sirabo
Dioptra. One of these works ( Appendix secunda), (xiv. p. 662). He wrote a history of Caria, the title
“Οτι ουκ έφαγε το νομικόν πάσχα ο Χριστός εν τω | or description of which is thus given by Athenaeus
δείπνο, αλλά το αληθινόν, Demonstratio quod (2. c. ), Περί Καρών και Λελέγων σύγγραμμα; and by
Christus in Sacra Coena non legale sed rerum come- Strabo more briefly, Kapiká. The work is lost.
derit Pascha, may have been written by Philip. Its Theangela, from which Philip received his desig-
arguments are derived from Scripture and St. Epi- nation, apparently as being a native of it, was a
phanius. The other work, consisting of five chapters, city on the most eastern promontory of Caria, not
De Fide et Cueremoniis Armeniorum, Jacobitarum, far from Halicarnassus. Of the age of Philip
Chatzitzariorum et Romanorum seu Francorum, was nothing is known, except that he was earlier than
published, with a Latin version, but without an Strabo ; but if there is any reason for identifying
author's name, in the Auctarium Novum of Com- him with Philip Isangelus (ó Eloargedeus), men-
béfis, fol. Paris, 1648, vol. i. col. 261, &c. , but was, tioned by Plutarch (No. 14), he must be placed
on the authority of MSS. , assigned by Combéns, after the time of Alexander the Great. (Vossius,
in a note, to Demetrius of Cyzicus [DEMETRIUS, De Hist. Graec. lib. iii. )
No. 17), to whom appears rightly to belong 31. THEOPOMPI EPITOMATOR. (Comp. Photius,
(comp. Cave, Hist. Litt. Dissertatio I. p. 6 ; Fabric. Biblioth. cod. 176. )
Bibl. Graec. vol. xi. 414). The Chatzitzarii (Xat. 32. Of THESSALONICA. (See below. ) (J. C. M. ]
6. 7 Śápioi) were a sect who paid religious homage to PHILIPPUS, of Thessalonica, an epigrame
the image of the Cross, but employed no other images matic poet, who, besides composing a large number
in their worship. The work of Demetrius appears of epigrams himself
, compiled one of the ancient
under the name of Philip in the fourteenth (post-Greek Anthologies. The whole number of epi-
grams ascribed to him in the Greek Anthology is
His recentiores duotoTedeūta, pariter cadentium nearly ninety ; but of these, six (Nos. 36-41)
exitum, quem rhythmum (rhyme) dicimus,addidere.
ought to be ascribed to Lucillius, and a few others
Politicos vocatos arbitror quod vulgo Constantino- are manifestly borrowed from earlier poets, while
poli per compita canerentur. ” Quoted in Lambec. others are mere imitations. (Comp. above, Phi-
Commentur. de Biblioth. Caesar, vol. s. lib. iv. col. Lippus, literary, Nos. 10 and 15. ) They include
397, note 2, ed. Kollar. The measure is retained nearly all the different classes of subjects treated of
in English as a ballad measure, and may be illus- in the Greek epigrammatic poetry,
trated by the old ditty of “ The Unfortunate Miss
The Anthology ('Aveonola) of Philip, in imi-
Bayley," the first two lines of which closely re-tation of that of Meleager, and as a sort of supple-
semble in their cadence those cited in the text:-
ment to it, contains chiefly the epigrams of poets
"A captain bold of Halifax, who lived in country who lived in, or shortly before, the time of Philip.
quarters,
These poets were the following: Antipater of
Seduced a maid who hung herself one morning Thessalonica, Crinagoras, Antiphilus, Tullius, Phi-
in her garters," &c.
lodemus, Parmenion, Antiphanes, Automedon
## p. 293 (#309) ############################################
PHILISCUS.
293
ܐܢܐ ܠܐ
Hea
est Guar
14l,
והה-35
Chiara
of Puig
le;
PHILIPPUS.
Zonas, Bianor, Antigonus, Diodorus, Evenus, and He is also mentioned by Galen, De Febr. Diffet.
some others whose names he does not mention. ii. 6, vol. vii. p. 347, De Plenit. c. 4, vol. vii. p.
The earliest of these poets seems to be Philodemus, 530. It is uncertain whether the Philippus of
the contemporary of Cicero, and the latest Auto- Macedonia, one of whose antidotes is quoted by
medon, who probably flourished under Nerva. Galen (De Antid. ii. 8, vol. xiv. p. 149), is the
llence it is inferred that Philip flourished in the same person.
time of Trajan. Various allusions in his own A sophist of this name is said by Aëtius (i. 4.
epigrams prove that he lived after the time of Au- 96, p. 186) to have promised immortality to those
gustus. (Jacobs, Anth. Graec. vol. xiii. pp. 934— persons who would engage to follow his directions,
936. )
[P. S. ] but it is not specified that he was a physician;
PHILIPPUS (DIATTOS), the name of several neither is it known whether the father of the cele-
physicians
brated physician, Archigenes, whose name was
1. A native of Acarnania, the friend and phy- Philippus (Suid. s. v. 'Apxiyérns), was himself a
sician of Alexander the Great, of whom a well-member of the medical profession. (W. A. G. ]
known story is told by feveral ancient authors. PHILISCUS (Alokos), a citizen of Abydus,
He was the means of saving the king's life, when who in B. C. 368 was sent into Greece by Ariobar-
he had been seized with a severe attack of fever, zanes, the Persian satrap of the Hellespont, to
brought on by bathing in the cold waters of the effect a reconciliation between the Thebans and
river Cydnus in Cilicia, after being violently heated, Lacedaemonians. He came well supplied with
B. C. 333. Parmenion sent to warn Alexander that money, and in the name of Artaxerxes IJ. ; but in
Philippus had been bribed by Dareius to poison a congress which he caused to be held at Delphi,
him ; the king, however, would not believe the in- he failed to accomplish his object, as the Thebans
formation, nor doubt the fidelity of his physician, refused to abandon their claim to the sovereignty
but, while he drank off the draught prepared for of Boeotia, and Lacedaemon would not acknow-
him, he put into his hands the letter he had just ledge the independence of Messenia. Upon this
received, fixing his eyes at the same time steadily Philiscus, leaving behind him a body of 2000
on his countenance. A well-known modern picture mercenaries for the service of Sparta, and having
represents this incident ; and the king's speedy been honoured, as well as Ariobarzanes, with the
recovery fully justified his confidence in the skill Athenian franchise, returned to Asia. Here, under
and honesty of his physician. (Q. Curt. iii. 6 ; cover of the satrap's protection, he made himself
Valer. Max. iii, 8, in fine ; Plut. Vit. Alex. c. 19; master of a number of Greek states, over which
Arrian, ii. 4 ; Justin, xi, 8 ; Diod. Sic. xvii. 31. ) he exercised a tyrannical and insolent sway, till
2. A native of Epeirus at the court of Antigonus, he was at last assassinated at Lampsacus by Ther-
king of Asia, B. C. 323–301. Celsus tells an sagoras and Execestus (Xen. Hell. vii. I. $ 27;
anecdote (De Med. ii. 21, p. 56) that, when ano- Diod. xv. 70; Dem. c. Aristocr. pp. 666, 667).
ther physician said that one of the king's friends, Diodorus places the mission of Philiscus to Greece
who was suffering from dropsy caused by his in- in B. c. 369, a year too soon.
[E. E. )
temperate habits, was incurable, Philippus under- PHILISCUS (thiokos), literary. 1. An
took to restore him to health ; upon which the other Athenian comic poet of the Middle Comedy, of
replied that he had not been thinking so much of whom little is known. Suidas smmply mentions him
the nature of the disease, as of the character of the as a comic poet, and gives the following titles of his
patient, when he denied the possibility of his re-plays:'Αδωνις, Διός γοναι, Θημιστοκλής, "Όλυμπος,
covery. The result justified his prognosis. Πανός γοναί, Ερμού και Αφροδίτης γοναι, 'Αρτέ-
3. A contemporary of Juvenal at Rome, about udos kal 'ATÓNiwvos. These mythological titles
the beginning of the second century after Christ. sufficiently prove that Philiscus belonged to the
(Sat. xiii. 125. )
Middle Comedy. The nativities of the gods, to
4. A contemporary of Galen, about the middle which most of them relate, formed a very favourite
of the second century after Christ, who belonged class of subjects with the poets of the Middle Co-
to the sect of the Empirici, and held a disputation medy. (Meineke, Hist. Crit. Com. Graec. pp. 278,
for two days with Pelops (probably at Smyrna), in &e. ) Eudocia omits the title 'Epuoù Kal Adpodirns
defence of their doctrines (Galen. De Libris Propr. yoval, and Lobeck has pointed out the difficulty of
c. 2, vol. xix. p. 16). It does not seem possible to seeing how the nativities of Hermes and Aphro-
decide with certainty whether this is the same dite could be connected in one drama (Aglaoph.
person who is frequently mentioned in different p. 437); a difficulty which Meineke meets by
parts of Galen's writings ; who wrote on maras- supposing that we ought to read 'Epuoù oval,
mus (De Differ. Febr. 1. 10, vol. vii. p. 315, De 'Appodinys yoval, as two distinct titles (Hist. Crit.
Marc. cc. 5, 6, 7, 9, vol. vii. pp. 685, 689, 694, pp. 281, 282). The Themistocles is, almost with-
701, De Caus. Pul. iv. 10, vol. ix. p. 176, De Methout doubt, wrongly ascribed by Suidas to the comic
Med. vii. 6, x. 10, vol. x. pp. 495, 706), on ma- poet Philiscus, instead of the tragie poet of the
teria medica (De Compos. Medicam. sec. Loc. vii. same name. Another play is cited by Stobaeus
1, vol. xiii. p. 14, De Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen. (Serm. Ixxiii. 53), namely the Ⓡidpyupoi, or, as
ii. 5, iii. 9, vol. xiii. pp. 502, 642), and on cata- Meineke thinks it ought to be, ºu ápyupos.
lepsy (Cael. Aurel. De Morb. Acut. ii. 10, p. 96 ; Philiscus must have fourished about B. C. 400,
conf. Gal. Comment. in Hippocr. “ Prorrhet. I.
