1. A contemporary of Strabo, probably about the middle or end of the first century B. C. He was at the head of a celebrated Herophilean school of medicine established at Men-Carus in Phrygia, between Laodicea and Carura, and was succeeded in this post by Alexander Philalethes. (Strabo, 12.8. p. 77, ed. Tauchn.)
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