3. Of CHIOS, a disciple of Democritus, or, according to other
accounts, of Nessus of Chios He flourished about
He was a philosopher of considerable reputation, and professed the doctrine of the sceptics in their fullest sense. Metrodorus did not confine himself to philosophy, but studied, at least, if he did not practise, medicine, on which he wrote a good deal. It is probably he who is quoted more than once by Pliny. He was the instructor of Hippocrates and Anaxarchus.
Cicero (Nego scire nos sciamusne aliquid an nihil sciamus: ne id ipsum quidem nescire
aut scire; nec omnino sitne aliquid, an nihil sit.
The commencement of the same
work is quoted in Eusebius (Praep. Evang. xiv. p. 765).
Athenaeus (iv. p. 184a) quotes from a work by Metrodorus, entitled
A work,
s. vv.Bibl.
Graec. vol. ii. p. 660; Voss. de Hist. Graecis, pp. 54, 470, ed.
West.)