Phila'grius
PHILA'GRIUS (
Φιλάγριος)
1. A Greek medical writer, born in Epeirus, lived after Galen and before Oribasius, and therefore probably in the third century after Christ.
According to Suidas (
s. r.) he was a pupil of a physician named Naumachius, and practised his profession chiefly at Thessalonica.
Works
Theophilus gives him the title of
περιοδευτής (
Comment. in Hippocr. "Aphor.", in Dietz,
Schol. in Hippocr. et Gal. vol. ii. p. 457), which probably means a physician who travelled from place to place in the exercise of his profession.
He seems to have been well known to the Arabic medical writers, by whom he is frequently quoted
1, and who have preserved the titles of the following of his works :--
(See Wenrich,
De Auctor. Graecor. Version. et Comment. Arab. Syriac. &c. p. 296.) Suidas says he wrote as many as seventy volumes, but of these works only a few fragments remain, which are preserved by Oribasius, Aetius, and others. In Cyril's Lexicon (Cramer's
Anecd. Graeca Paris. vol. iv. p. 196) he is enumerated among the most eminent physicians.