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1. A physician at Rome in the first or second century after Christ, attached to the court of
one of the emperors (Gal. De Compos. Medicam. sec. Locos, 1.3, vol. xii.
p. 445), probably Trajan, Epigr. 11.60. 6.)
None of his works are extant, except a few fragments preserved by other authors.
He wrote a work on Cosmetics (ibid. p. 446) and which
contained almost all that had been written on the same subject by Heracleides of Tarentum,
Cleopatra, and others.
The contents of each chapter of the four books have been preserved by Galen (ibid.), by whom the work is frequently quoted.
He wrote also a work on Simple Medicines (De
Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen. 2.11, 6.1, vol. xiii. pp. 516, 862).
he is also quoted by Aetius and Paulus Aegineta, and may perhaps be the person to whom one
of the letters of Apollonius of Tyana is addressed. (Ep. xvii. ed.
Colon. Agripp. 1623, 8vo.)
He is perhaps the author of a work on Cookery, mentioned by Athenaeus. (xii. p. 516.)