Damocrates
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1st century AD Greek physician
For other people named Democrates, see Democrates (disambiguation).
Servilius Damocrates (or Democrates; Greek: Δαμοκράτης, Δημοκράτης) was a Greek physician at Rome in the middle to late 1st century AD. He may have received the praenomen "Servillius" from his having become a client of the Servilia gens. Galen calls him ἄριστος ἰατρός,[1] and Pliny says[2] he was "e primis medentium," and relates[3] his cure of Considia, the daughter of Marcus Servilius. He wrote quite a few pharmaceutical works in Greek iambic verse, of which there only remain the titles and some extracts preserved by Galen.[4]
Notes
- ^ Galen, De Ther. ad Pis., c. 12, vol. xiv.
- ^ Pliny, H. N., xxv. 49
- ^ Pliny, H. N., xxiv. 28
- ^ Galen, De Compos. Medicam. sec. Locos., v. 5, vii. 2, viii. 10, x. 2, vol. xii., vol. xiii.; De Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen., i. 19, v. 10, vi. 12, 17, vii. 8, 10, 16, vol. xiii.; De Antid. i. 15, ii. 2, etc, 15, vol. xiv.
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Greenhill, William Alexander (1870). "Damocrates or Democrates, Servilius". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . Vol. I. p. 935.