Agapetus (physician)

For others with this name, see Agapetus.

Agapetus (Gr. Ἀγαπητός) was an ancient Greek physician, whose remedy for the gout is mentioned with approbation by Alexander of Tralles[1] and Paul of Aegina.[2] He probably lived between the third and sixth centuries AD, or certainly not later, as Alexander of Tralles, by whom he is quoted, is supposed to have flourished about the beginning of the sixth century.[3]

References

  1. ^ Alexander of Tralles, xi. p. 303
  2. ^ Paul of Aegina, iii. 78, p. 497, vii. 11, p. 661
  3. ^ Greenhill, William Alexander (1867), "Agapetus", in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1, Boston, pp. 60, http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0069.html 

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