Zeuxis of Tarentum

Zeuxis of Tarentum (Ancient Greek: Zεῦξις), 3rd century BC, was a physician of the Empiric school, who wrote commentaries on the works of Hippocrates.

He was a native of Tarentum,^[1] one of the earliest commentators on the writings of Hippocrates,^[2] and also one of the earliest of the Empiric school.^[3] He lived after Herophilus, Callimachus,^[4] Bacchius,^[5] and Glaucias;^[6] and apparently before Zeno;^[7] and his date may therefore be placed around the middle of the 3rd century BC. He expounded the whole of the Hippocratic Collection,^[8] but his commentaries were not much esteemed in Galen's time, and had become scarce.^[9]