Xe'nophon
(
Ξενοφῶν), the name of two (or more probably
three) physicians.
1. A pupil of Praxagoras (Oribas.
Coll. Medic. 44.8, p. 12, in Mai's
Class. Auct. e Vatic. Codic. Edit. Rom. 1831), who must therefore have lived in the fourth century B. C., perhaps also in the third.
He is probably the native of Cos mentioned by Diogenes Laertius (2.6.59); perhaps also the physician quoted by Caelius Aurelianus (
De Morb. Chron. 2.13, p. 416).
It is also shown by M. Littré (
Oeuvres d'Hippocr. vol. i. pp. 75, 76) that he is the person alluded to, but not
named, by Galen (
Comment. in Hippocr. Prognost. 1.4, vol. xviii. pt. ii. p. 19); and therefore he is perhaps also the physician mentioned by the same author (
De Dieb. Decret. 2.7, vol. ix. p. 872), as having written on the subject of critical days.