Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

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Menecrătes

（Μενεκράτης).

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A Syracusan physician at the court of Philip, king of Macedon, B.C. 359-336. He made himself ridiculous by calling himself “Zeus,” and assuming divine honours. There is a tale that he was invited one day by Philip to a magnificent entertainment, where the other guests were sumptuously fed, while he himself had nothing but incense and libations, as not being subject to the human infirmity of hunger. He was at first pleased with his reception; but afterwards, perceiving the joke and finding that no more substantial food was offered him, he left the party in disgust (Athen. p. 289).

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2.

Tiberius Claudius Menecrătes, a physician mentioned by Galen, composed more than 150 medical works, of which only a few fragments remain.