302 Pliny's natural history. [Book XX. 



cus,^^ Medius,^ Dieuches,^' Cleophantus,^^ Philistion,^^ Ascle- 

 piades,^^ Crateuas,^^ Petronius Diodotus,-^- loUas,^^ Erasistra- 

 tus/* Diagoras,^^ Andreas/^ Mnesides,^^ Epicharmus,^^ Da- 

 mioD, ^^ Dalion, *" Sosimenes, ''^ Tlepolemus, *^ Metrodo- 



25 A pupil of Praxao:oras. He appears to have written a work on 

 Anatomy, quoted more than once by Galen. 



26 A pupil of Chrysippus of Cuidos, and who lived probably in the 

 fourth and third centuries b.c. Galen speaks of him as being held in 

 great repute among the Greeks. 



2^ He flourished in the fourth century b.c, and belonged to the medi- 

 cal sect of the Dogmatici. He wrote some medical works, of which no- 

 thing but a few fragments remain. 



2» He lived probably about the beginning of the third century b.c, as 

 he was the tutor of Antigenes and Mnemon. He seems to have been 

 famous for his medicinal prescriptions of wine, and the quantities of coldi 

 water which he gave to his patients. 



29 Born either in Sicily or at Locri Epizephyiii, in Italy. He is sup- 

 posed to have lived in the fourth century b.c By some persons he was 

 thought to have been one of the founders of the sect of the Empirici. He 

 wrote works on Materia Medica and Cookery, and is several times quoted- 

 by Pliny and Galen. 3o ^^,Q gi^fj Qf ^ yij, 



3^ A Greek herbalist, who lived about the beginning of the first cen- 

 tury B.C. He is mentioned by Galen as one of the most eminent writersi' 

 on Materia Medica. Another physician of the same name is supposed to 

 have lived in the time of Hippocrates. 



32 A Greek physician, supposed to have lived in or before the first cen- 

 tury B.c Dioscorides and Saint Epiphani us speak of Petronius a?e(^ Dio- 

 dotus, making them different persons ; and it is not improbable that the 

 true reading in c. 32 of this Book, is " Petronius et Diodotus." 



3^ See end of B. xii. ^i ggg g^j of B. xi. 



35 See end of B. xii. 



'^ It is probable that there were several Greek physicians of this name ; 

 but the only one of whom anytliing certain is known is the physician to 

 Ptolemy Philopater, king of Egypt, in whose tent he was killed by Theo- 

 dotus, the JEtolian, b.c 217. He was probably the first writer on hydro- 

 phobia, Eratosthenes is said to have accused him of plagiarism. 



3^ See end of B. xii. 



3^ It is doubtful if the person of tliis name to whom Pliny attributes an 

 work on the Cabbage, in cc. '64. and 36 of this Book, was the same indi- 

 vidual as Epicharmus of Cos, the Comic poet, born b.c 540. It has been 

 suggested that the botanical writer was a difi'erent personage, the brother 

 of the Comic poet Demologus. 



39 Possibly the same person as the Damon mentioned at the eiid of B, 

 vii. He is mentioned in c. 40 of this Book, and in B. xxiv. c. 120, and 

 wrote a work on the Onion. 



i« See end of B. vi. 



*i Beyond the mention made of him in c. 73 of this Book, nothing what- 

 ever is known relative to this writer. 



^2 Beyond the mention made of him in c. 73, nothing is known of him. 

 Some read " Theopolemus." 



