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

or DEMO'CRATES (Δαμοκράτης or Δημοκράτης), SERVI'LIUS, a Greek physician at Rome about the beginning or middle of the first century after Christ, who may perhaps have received the praenomen " Servilius" from his having become a client of the Servilia gens. Galen calls him ἃριστός ἰατρός (De Ther. ad Pis. 100.12. vol. xiv. p. 260), and Pliny says (H. N.V. 25.49), he was "e primis medentium," and relates (H. N. 24.28) his cure of Considia, the daughter of M. Servilius.

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