Glaucias (physician, 3rd century BC)

Glaucias (Greek: Γλαυκίας; c. 3rd century BC) was a Greek physician of the Empiric school who wrote commentaries on the works of Hippocrates.

He belonged to the Empiric school,[1] and lived after Serapion of Alexandria, and before Heraclides of Tarentum, and therefore probably in the 3rd or 2nd century BC.[2] Galen mentions him as one of the earliest commentators on the whole of the Hippocratic Corpus,[3] and he also wrote an alphabetical glossary on the difficult words occurring in the Hippocratic collection.[4] His commentaries on Hippocrates are several times quoted and referred to by Galen.[5] It is uncertain whether he is the person quoted by Pliny.[6]

Notes

1. Galen, De Meth. Med., ii. 7, vol. x; Comment. in Hippocr. Epid. VI., iii. 29, vol. xvii. pt. ii
2. Celsus, De Medic., i. praef.
3. Galen, Comment. in Hippocr. De Humor., i. 24, vol. xvi.
4. Erotianus, Gloss. Hippocr.
5. Galen, Comment. in Hippocr. De Humor., i. praef., ii. 30, vol. xvi.; Comment. in Hippocr. Epid. VI., i. praef., vol. xvii. pt. i
6. Pliny, H. N., xx. 99, xxi. 102, xxii. 47, xxiv. 91

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