(), a physician, who was one of
the pupils of Alexander Philalethes, and belonged to the school of medicine founded by
Herophilus. (Gal. De Differ. Puls. 4.4. vol. viii. p. 727.) He probably
lived about the beginning of the Christian aera, and was especially celebrated for his skill
as an oculist. He wrote a work on the Pulse, which is quoted by Galen (l.c.), and also one on Diseases of the Eyes, which appears to have been extant in the
middle ages, but of which nothing now remains but some extracts preserved by Aetius, Paulus
Aegineta, and other later writer