(Μηνόδοτος), a physician of Nicomedeia in Bithynia.
He was a pupil of Antiochus of Laodiceia, and tutor to Herodotus of Tarsus; he belonged to the medical sect of the Empirici, and lived probably about the beginning of the second century after Christ. (D. L. 9.116; Galen, De Meth. Med. 2.7, vol. x. p. 142, Introd. 100.4. vol. xiv. p. 683; Sext. Empir. Pyrhon. Hypotyp. 1.222, p. 57, ed. Fabric.) He refuted some of the opinions of Asclepiades of Bithynia (Gal. De Nat. Facult. 1.14, vol. ii. p. 52), and was exceedingly severe against the Dogmatici (id. De Subfig. Empir. 100.9, 13, vol. ii. pp. 343, 346, ed. Chart.). He enjoyed a considerable reputation in his day, and is several times quoted and mentioned by Galen. (De Cur. Rat. per Ven. Sect. 100.9, vol. xi. p. 277; Comment. in Hippocr. " De Artic." 3.62, vol. xviii. pt. i. p. 575; Comment. in Hippocr. " De Rat. Vict. in Morb. Acut." 4.17, vol. xv. p. 766; De Libr. Propr. 100.9, vol. xix. p. 38; De Compos. Medicam. sec. Locos, vi. i. vol. xii. p. 904.)
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