(Χαρίξενος) or CHARI'XENES (Χαριξένες), a physician, who probably lived in the first century after Christ, as he is mentioned by Asclepiades Pharmacion. Several of his medical formulae have been preserved by Galen and Aetius. (Gal. De Compos. Medicam. sec. Loc. 3.3, 5.3, 7.2, 4, 5, vol. xii. pp. 685, 829, xiii. pp. 48, 49, 50, 82, 102; Aet. De lMed. 2.4, 52, p. 406.)
[W.A.G]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