(), a physician, who is mentioned four times by
Galen, and whose name is in each passage spelt differently, viz. Ἰφικιανός (
Comment. in Hippocr. De Offic. Med. 1.3, vol. xviii.
pt. ii. p. 654), Ἐφικιανός (De Ord.
Libror. suor. vol. xix. p. 58), Φικιανός (Comment. in Hippocr. " Epid. III." 1.29, vol. xvii. pt. i. p. 575), and
Φηκιανός (Comment, in Hippocr." De
Humor." 3.34, vol. xvi. p. 484.) The form of the name here adopted is considered by
Fabricius (Bibl. Gr. vol. iii. p. 571, xiii. p. 302, ed. vet.) to be the
most correct, but M. Littre, in his edition of Hippocrates (vol. i. p. 113), seems to prefer
phecianus. He was a pupil of Quintus, and one of the tutors of Galen,
about the middle of the second century after Christ.
Works
Commentaries on Hippocrates
He was a follower of the Stoic philosophy, and commented on part or the whole of the works
of Hippocrates.