The'mison
2. The physician mentioned by Juvenal in his well-known line
" Quot Themison aegros autumno occiderit uno."
(
Sat. 10.221.)
is by many commentators (perhaps by
most) considered to be the same person as the founder of the Methodici. However, it seems hardly probable that Juvenal would have cared for satyrizing a physician who was not a contemporary; and therefore perhaps the old scholiast on Juvenal is right in saying that he was " archiater illius temporis," i. e. in the first century after Christ.