Philonides (physician)

Philonides (Greek: Φιλωνίδης) was the name of two physicians in the time of Ancient Greece and Rome: * A physician of Catana in Sicily, the tutor of , 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; by Erotianus; and also by Galen, who refers to his eighteenth book, Περὶ Ἰατρικῆς, De Medicina. * A physician of Dyrrachium in Illyricum, who was a pupil of Asclepiades of Bithynia in the 1st century BC, practised in his own country with some reputation, and wrote as many as 45 books.

Philonides (physician)

Philonides (Greek: Φιλωνίδης) was the name of two physicians in the time of Ancient Greece and Rome: * A physician of Catana in Sicily, the tutor of , 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; by Erotianus; and also by Galen, who refers to his eighteenth book, Περὶ Ἰατρικῆς, De Medicina. * A physician of Dyrrachium in Illyricum, who was a pupil of Asclepiades of Bithynia in the 1st century BC, practised in his own country with some reputation, and wrote as many as 45 books.