2. A physician and friend of Eumenes II., king of Pergamus, who was sent by him to Rome in B. C. 167, to restrain as well as observe the ambitious designs of his brother Attalus. By his prudent admonitions he succeeded in recalling that prince to a sense of duty. (Plb. 30.2; Liv. 45.19.)
[E.H.B]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