a Greek treatise on Physiognomy (
Φυσιογνωμονικὰ)
Adamantius is the author of a Greek treatise on physiognomy, Φυσιογνωμονικὰ, in two books, which is still extant, and which is borrowed in
a great measure (as he himself confesses, i. Prooem. p. 314, ed. Franz.) from Polemo's work
on the same subject. It is dedicated to Constantius, who is supposed by Fabricius (Biblioth. Graeca, vol. ii. p. 171, 13.34, ed. vet.) to be the person who
married Placidia, the daughter of Theodosius the Great, and who reigned for seven months in
conjunction with the Emperor Honorius.
Editions
The Treatise on Physiognomy was first published in Greek at Paris, 1540,
8vo., then in Greek and Latin at Basle, 1544, 8vo., and afterwards
in Greek, together with Aelian, Polemo and some other writers, at Rome, 1545,
4to.; the last and best edition is that by J. G. Franzius, who has inserted
it in his collection of the Scriptores Physiognomiae Veteres, Gr. et Lat.,
Altenb. 1780, 8vo.
Περὶ Ἀνέμων (
De
Ventis,)
Another of his works, Περὶ Ἀνέμων,
De Ventis, is quoted by the Scholiast to Hesiod, and an extract from
it is given by Aetius (tetrab. i. serm. 3, c. 163); it is said to be still in existence in
manuscript in the Royal Library at Paris. Several of his medical prescriptions are preserved
by Oribasius and Aetius.