Philonides (Greek: Φιλωνίδης) was the name of two physicians in the time of Ancient Greece and Rome:
- A physician of Catana in Sicily, the tutor of Paccius Antiochus,[1] who lived about the beginning of the 1st century. He is probably the physician who is quoted by Dioscorides, and said by him to have been a native of Enna in Sicily;[2] by Erotianus;[3] and also by Galen, who refers to his eighteenth book, Περὶ Ἰατρικῆς, De Medicina.[4]
- A physician of Dyrrachium in Illyricum, who was a pupil of Asclepiades of Bithynia in the 1st century BC, practiced in his own country with some reputation, and wrote as many as 45 books.[5]
One of these physicians wrote a work, Περὶ μύρων καὶ Στεφάνων, De Unguentis et Coronis, which is quoted by Athenaeus,[6] and one on Pharmacy quoted by Andromachus,[7] and by Marcellus Empiricus.[8]
Notes[edit]
- ^ Scribonius Largus, De Compos. Medicam. c. 23. § 97. p. 209; Marcellus Empiricus, De Medicam. c. 20, p. 324
- ^ Dioscorides, De Mat. Med. iv. 148, vol. i. p. 62
- ^ Erotianus, Lex. Hippocr. p. 144
- ^ Galen, De Differ. Puls. iv. 10, vol. viii. p. 748.
- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, Dyrrachion
- ^ Athenaeus, xv. pp. 675, 676, 691
- ^ ap. Galen, De Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen. viii. 7, vol. xiii. p. 978
- ^ Marcellus Empiricus, De Medicam. c. 29, p. 380
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty|title=(help)
