() is supposed by some persons to
have been a physician, or druggist, who must have lived in or before the second century after
Christ; he is the inventor of an antidote against poisonous reptiles, &c., of which the
prescription is embodied in a short Greek elegiac poem. The poem is inserted by Galen in one
of his works (De Antid. 2.14, 17, vol. xiv. pp. 185, 201), but nothing is
known of the history of the author. Others suppose that a physician of this name is not the
author either of the poem or the antidote, but that they are connected in some way with the
Theriaca which Antiochus the Great, king of Syria, was in the habit of using, and the
prescription for which he dedicated in verse to Aesculapius (Plin. H. N.
xx. cap. ult.) or Apollo. (Plin. Valer. De Re Med. 4.38.) (See Cagnati
Variae Observat. 2.25, p. 174, ed. Rom. 1587.)