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

(Μέγης), an eminent surgeon, born at Sidon in Phoenicia (Galen, De Meth. Med. 6.6, vol. x. p. 454), who practised at Rome with great reputation and success, shortly before the time of Celsus, and therefore probably in the first century B. C. Cels. De Medic. vii. praef.)

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