[1820] See end of B. xii.
[1821] It is probable that there were several Greek physicians of this name; but the only one of whom anything certain is known is the physician to Ptolemy Philopater, king of Egypt, in whose tent he was killed by Theodotus, the Ætolian, B.C. 217. He was probably the first writer on hydrophobia. Eratosthenes is said to have accused him of plagiarism.
[1822] See end of B. xii.
[1823] It is doubtful if the person of this name to whom Pliny attributes a work on the Cabbage, in cc. 34 and 36 of this Book, was the same individual as Epicharmus of Cos, the Comic poet, born B.C. 540. It has been suggested that the botanical writer was a different personage, the brother of the Comic poet Demologus.
[1824] Possibly the same person as the Damon mentioned at the end 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.
[1825] See end of B. vi.
[1826] Beyond the mention made of him in c. 73 of this Book, nothing whatever is known relative to this writer.
[1827] Beyond the mention made of him in c. 73, nothing is known of him. Some read “Theopolemus.”
[1828] Probably Metrodorus of Chïos, a philosopher, who flourished about B.C. 330, and professed the doctrine of the Sceptics. Cicero, Acad. ii. 23, § 73, gives a translation of the first sentence of his work “On Nature.”
[1829] A physician of Smyrna. He is called Solon the Dietetic, by Galen; but nothing further seems to be known of his history.