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Iollas, Iolaus

or IOLAS (Ἰόλλας, Ἰόλαος, orἸόλας), a writer on materia medica, born in Bithynia, who was probably a contemporary of Heracleides of Tarentum, or a little anterior to him, in the third century B. C., as he is mentioned in company with him by Dioscorides. (De Mat. Med. i. Praef. vol. i. p. 2.) He is mentioned also by Celsus (De Medic. 5.22, p. 93), Pliny (Plin. Nat. 20.73, 76), Galen (De Antid. 1.2, vol. xiv. p. 7), St. Epiphanius (Adv. Haeres. 1.1. 3. p. 3.), and the scholiast on Nicander (Ther. 5.683), but nothing is known of the events of his life, nor are any of his writings preserved.

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William Smith. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. London. John Murray: printed by Spottiswoode and Co., New-Street Square and Parliament Street. In the article on Soranus, we find: "at this present time (1848)" and this date seems to reflect the dates of works cited. 1873 - probably the printing date.

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