Acumenus

Acumenus (Ancient Greek: Ἀκουμενός) was a physician of Athens who lived in the 5th century BC. He was mentioned as the friend and companion of Socrates.^[1] He was the father of Eryximachus, who was also a physician, and who is introduced as one of the speakers in Plato's Symposium.^[2] 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.^[3]

Both Acumenus and Eryximachus were implicated in accusations of sacrilege in 415. After being named by the slave Lydus as having profaned the Eleusinian Mysteries, Acumenus fled Athens.^[4]