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date: 19 January 2021

Xenocrates(2)locked

, of Aphrodisias, physician
  • William David Ross

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Physician of the time of *Nero and the Flavians (54–96 ce).Περὶ τῆς ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου καὶ τῶν ζῴων ὠφελείας (‘On the uses of human beings and animals’), full of superstitious means of treatment, borrowed largely from previous works such as Ps.-Democritus'Lithognomon, a lexicon of .

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