Philinus of Cos

For the athlete, see Philinus of Cos (athlete).

Philinus of Cos (Greek: Φιλῖνος ὁ Κῷος; 3rd century BC) was a Greek physician. He was the reputed founder of the Empiric school. He was a pupil of Herophilus, a contemporary of Bacchius, and a predecessor of Serapion.^[1] He wrote a work on part of the Hippocratic collection directed against Bacchius,^[2] and also one on botany,^[3] neither of which has survived. It is perhaps this later work that is quoted by Athenaeus,^[4] Pliny ,^[5] and Andromachus.^[6]