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Calli'anax

（Καλλιάναξ), a physician, who probably lived in the third century B. C. He was one of the followers of Herophilus, and appears to have been chiefly known for the roughness and brutality of his manners towards his patients. Some of his answers have been preserved by Galen. To one of his patients who said he was about to die, he replied by the verse, Εἰ μή σε Λητὼ καλλίταις ἐγείνατο: and to another who expressed the same fear he quoted the verse from Homer (Hom. Il. 21.107), Κάτθανε καὶ Πάτροκλος, ὅπερ σέο πολλὸν ὰμείνων. (Galen, Comment. in Hippocr. "Epid. VI." 4.9. vol. xvii. pt. ii. p. 145; Pallad. Comment. Hippocr. "Epid. VI." § 8, apud Dietz, Schol. in Hippocr. et Gal. vol. ii. p. 112.)

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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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