Philonides (physician) explained
Philonides (Greek, Modern (1453-);: 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 and References
- [Scribonius Largus]
- 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]
- 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