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Philīnus

（Φιλίνος).

1.

An Attic orator, the contemporary of Demosthenes and Lycurgus.

2.

A Greek physician, the reputed founder of the Empirical School of medicine, in the third century B.C. See Medicina.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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