Philonides (physician)

Philonides (Greek: Φιλωνίδης) was the name of two physicians in the time of Ancient Greece and Rome:

• A physician of Catana in Sicily, the tutor of Paccius Antiochus,^[1] who lived about the beginning of the 1st century. He is probably the physician who is quoted by Dioscorides, and said by him to have been a native of Enna in Sicily;^[2] by Erotianus;^[3] and also by Galen, who refers to his eighteenth book, Περὶ Ἰατρικῆς, De Medicina.^[4]
• A physician of Dyrrachium in Illyricum, who was a pupil of Asclepiades of Bithynia in the 1st century BC, practiced in his own country with some reputation, and wrote as many as 45 books.^[5]

One of these physicians wrote a work, Περὶ μύρων καὶ Στεφάνων, De Unguentis et Coronis, which is quoted by Athenaeus,^[6] and one on Pharmacy quoted by Andromachus,^[7] and by Marcellus Empiricus.^[8]