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Polybus

（Πόλυβος).

1.

A king of Corinth, fosterfather of Oedipus (q.v.).

2.

A physician, one of the pupils of Hippocrates. He founded the sect of the Dogmatici. See Medicina.

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

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