3. A freedman of Lucullus, who, according to Cornelius Nepos (apud Plut. Lucull. 43), administered to his master a certain drug (intended as a charm to increase his affliction for him), which caused the failure of intellect that he laboured under in his latter years.
[E.E]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