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The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 3 (of 6)

Note 406 — BOOK XI. THE VARIOUS KINDS OF INSECTS. (continued 3)

John Bostock translation

A native of Iulis, in Cos, or else Ceos, grandson of Aristotle, and disciple of Theophrastus. He acquired great reputation as a physician, at the court of Seleucus Nicator, king of Syria, where he discovered the supposed disease of Prince Antiochus, who had fallen in love with his step-mother, Stratonice. Of his numerous medical works, only the titles and a few fragments exist.

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