Acumenus

Acumenus (Gr. Ακουμενός) was a physician of Athens who lived in the 5th century BC, and is mentioned as the friend and companion of Socrates.^[1][2] He was the father of Eryximachus, who was also a physician, and who is introduced as one of the speakers in Plato's Symposium.^[3][4] He is also mentioned in the collection of letters first published by Leo Allatius in 1637 (Epist. Socralis et Socraticorum), and again by Orellius in 1815.^[5]

References

1. ^ Plato, Phaedrus init.
2. ^ Xen. Memor. iii. 13. § 2
3. ^ Plato, Protagoras p. 315, c.
4. ^ Plato, Symposium p. 176, c
5. ^ Greenhill, William Alexander (1867), "Acumenus", in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1, Boston, MA, pp. 17, http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0026.html 

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).