Hicesius (physician)

Hicesius (Greek: Ἱκέσιος) was a Greek physician, who lived probably at the end of the 1st century BC, as he is quoted by Crito,^[1] and lived shortly before Strabo. He was a follower of Erasistratus, and was at the head of a celebrated medical school established at Smyrna.^[2] He is several times quoted by Athenaeus, who says that he was a friend of the physician Menodorus;^[3] and also by Pliny, who calls him "a physician of no small authority."^[4] There are extant two coins struck in his honour by the people of Smyrna.

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•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "^{article name needed}". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.