4. A native of Tarsus in Cilicia, who must have lived in or before the beginning of the second century after Christ, as one of his medical formulae is quoted by Asclepiades Pharmacion. (Galen, De Compos. Medicam. sec. Locos, 9.7, vol. xiii. p. 313.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology
Smith, William
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890