Theomnestus
(Θεόμνηστος), one of the Greek writers on veterinary surgery, who may perhaps have lived in the fourth or fifth century after Christ. Works Fragments on Veterinary Surgery
None of his works remain. Editions
Some fragments are to be found in the collection of writers on veterinary surgery, first published in Latin by John Ruellius, 1530, fol. Paris, and afterwards in Greek by Simon Grynaeus, 1537, 4to. Basil. [W.A.G]
(Θεόμνηστος), artists.
1. A statuary of Sardis, of unknown time, who made the statue of the Olympic victor Ageles of Chios. (Paus. 6.15.2.) He may safely be identified with the Theomnestus mentioned by Pliny among those who made athletas et armatos et renatores sacrificantesque (H. N. 34.8. s. 19.34).
2. A sculptor, the son of Theotimus, flourished in Chios, under the early Roman emperors, as we learn from a Chian inscription, in which his name occurs as the maker, in conjunction with Dionysius, the son of Astius, of the monument erected to the memory of Claudius Asclepiades, a freedman of the emperor, by his wife, Claudia Tertuila. (Murator. vol. ii. p. mxiv. 11; Boeckh, Corp. Inscr. No. 224], vol. ii. p. 210; R. Rochette, Lettre à M. Schorn, pp. 417, 418, 2d ed.)
3. A painter, contemporary with Apelles. All that is known of him is contained in the statement of Pliny, that Mnason, the tyrant (of Elateia), gave him one hundred minae apiece for certain pictures, each of which represented a single hero. (Plin. Nat. 35.10. s. 36.21.) [P.S]
- sculptor: Paus. 6.15.2