A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

9. M.GallusAsclepiades seems to be a similar mistake, as in Galen, De Compos. Medicam. sec. Locos, 8.5, vol. xiii. p. 179, instead of Γαλλου Μάρκου τοῦ Ἀσκληπιάδου we should probably read Γαλλου Μαρκου τοῦ Ἀσκληπιαδείου. [GALLUS.]

There are several other physicians of the name of Asclepiades mentioned in inscriptions, of whom nothing worth recording is known. A list of them is given in the works mentioned above.

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