Philotimos
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Philotimus () (4th and 3rd centuries BC) was an eminent Greek physician, a pupil of Praxagoras, and a fellow pupil of Herophilus. He was also a contemporary of Erasistratus, and is quoted by Heraclides of Tarentum, and therefore must have lived in the 4th and 3rd centuries BC. Celsus mentions him as one of the eminent physicians of antiquity; and he is quoted by several of the ancient medical writers, viz. Caelius Aurelianus, Oribasius, Aëtius, and very frequently by Galen.
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Occupation
- physician
- Languages spoken
- Ancient Greek
- Student of
- Praxagoras
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- time period
- classical antiquity
- writing language
- Ancient Greek
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