Xenocrates of Aphrodisias

Xenocrates in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

A Greek physician of Aphrodisias, a work of whose is still remaining, on the food afforded by fishes. It is edited by Coray (Paris, 1814)....

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Xenocrates of Aphrodisias in Wikipedia

Xenocrates (Greek: Ξενοκράτης; 1st century) a Greek physician of Aphrodisias in Cilicia,[1] who must have lived about the middle of the 1st century, as he was probably a contemporary of Andromachus the Younger.[2] Galen says that he lived in the second generation before himself.[3] He wrote some pharmaceutical works, and is blamed by Galen[3] for m...

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