Anto'nius
a PHYSICIAN, called by Galen
ὁ ῥιζοτόμος, "the herbalist," who must have lived in or before the second century after Christ. His medical formulae are several times quoted by Galen (
De Compos. Medicam. sec. Locos, 2.1, vol. xii. p. 557;
De Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen. 6.15, vol. xiii. p. 935), and he is perhaps the same person who is called
φαρμακοπώλης, " the druggist." (
De Compos. Medicam. sec. Locos, 9.4, vol. xiii. p. 281.) Possibly they may both be identical with Antonius Castor [CASTOR, ANTONIUS], but of this there is no proof whatever.
A treatise on the Pulse (
Opera, vol. xix. p. 629), which goes under Galen's name, but which is probably a spurious compilation from his other works on this subject, is addressed to a person named Antonius, who is there called
Φιλομαθὴς καὶ Φιλόσοφος; and Galen wrote his work
De Propriorum Animi cujusdam Affectuum Dignotione et Curatione (
Opera, vol. v. p. 1, &c.) in answer to a somewhat similar treatise by an Epicurean philosopher of this name, who, however, does not appear to have been a physician.
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