Damocrates

1st century AD Greek physician

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: Smith, William, ed. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)