Archibius (surgeon)
Archibius (Ancient Greek: Ἀρχίβιος) was a Greek surgeon, of whom no particulars are known, but who must have lived in or before the first century CE, as he is quoted by both Heliodorus[1] and Galen.[2][3]
The naturalist Pliny the Elder mentions a person of the same name who wrote a superstitious letter to Antiochus, king of Syria; but it is uncertain which king is meant, nor is it known that this Archibius was a physician.[4]
Notes[edit]
- ^ Cocchi, Graecor. Chirurg. Libri, &c., Flor. 1754, fol. p. 96
- ^ Galen, De Antid. 2.10, vol. xiv. p. 159
- ^ Galen, De Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen. 5.14, vol. xiii. p. 849
- ^ Pliny the Elder, Natural History 18.70
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Greenhill, William Alexander (1870). "Archibius". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 266.
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