(Κριτόδημος), a Greek surgeon of the family of the Asclepiadae, and a native of the island of Cos, who is said by Arrian (6.11) to have been the person who extracted the weapon front the wound which
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Alexander the Great received in storming the principal fortress of the Mallians, B. C. 326. [CRITOBULUS.] [W.A.G]