Athena'goras(Ἀθηναγόρας), a physician, the
author of an unedited treatise on the Pulse and on Urine, of which there is a Latin MS. of the
eleventh century in the Royal Library at Paris. Some bronze coins struck at Smyrna in honour
of a person named Athenagoras were thought by Dr. Mead (in his
Dissert.
de Nummis quibusdam a Smyrnaeis in Medicorum Honorem percussis, Lond. 1724, 4to.) to
refer to the physician of this name; but this is now generally considered to be a mistake.
(See
Dict. of Ant. s. v. Medicus.) A work on Agriculture by a person of
the same name is mentioned by Varro (
De Re Rust. 1.1.9) and Columella
(
De Re Rust. 1.1.10).
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