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

2. An acquaintance of Scribonius Largus in the first century after Christ (Scr. Larg. De Compos. Medicam. 100.171, p. 222), a native either of Gordium in Phrygia (Gordiensis) or of Gortyna ill Crete (Gortynensis), may perhaps have been the same physician who is introduced by Plutarch as one of the speakers in his Symposiaca (3.6) and said to have belonged to the Epicurean school of philosophy.

A physician of this name is also mentioned in an old Latin inscription in Gruter's Inscript. p. 635.7. (See Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. xiii. p. 455, ed. vet.; Sprengel's Gesch. der Arzneik. vol. i. ed. 1846.

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