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

2. The medical writer quoted by Pliny (Plin. Nat. 32.16), must be a different person, who lived about a century earlier than Galen's tutor, though Fabricius, by an oversight, speaks of him as the same person (Bibl. Gr. vol. xiii. p. 360, ed vet.) : and this is probably the physician quoted by Asclepiades Pharmacion (ap. Galen, De Antid. 2.11, vol. xiv. p. 172).

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