2. A physician of Tarentum (hence commonly called Tarentinus), a pupil
of Mantias (Galen, De Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen. 2.1, vol. xiii. p. 462),
who lived probably in the third or second century B. C., somewhat later than Apollonius the
Empiric and Glaucias. (Cels. De Med. i. Praef. p. 5.) He belonged to the
sect of the Empirici (Cels. l.c.; Galen, De Meth.
Med. 2.7, vol. x. p. 142), and wrote some works on Materia Medica, which are very
frequently quoted by Galen, but of which only a few fragments remain. Galen speaks of him in
high terms of praise, saying that he was an author who could be entirely depended on, as he
wrote in his works only what he had himself found from his own experience to be correct. (De Compos. Medicame. sec. Gen. 4.7, vol. xiii. p. 717.) He was also one of
the first persons who wrote a commentary on all the works in the Hippocratic Collection.
(Galen, Comment. in Hippocr. " De Humor." i. Prooem. 24, vol. xvi. pp. 1,
196.) He is several times quoted by Caelius Aurelianus and other ancient authors. A further
account of his lost works, and his medical opinions so far as they can be found out, may be
found in two essays by C. G. Kühn, inserted in the second volume of his