Aeschines (physician)

For other people named Aeschines, see Aeschines (disambiguation).

Aeschines (Ancient Greek: Αἰσχίνης) was a Greek ancient physician who lived in the latter half of the 4th century AD.[1] He was born on the island of Chios, and settled at Athens, where he appears to have practiced with little success, but acquired fame by a cure of Eunapius Sardianus, who on his voyage to Athens had been seized with a fever, which yielded only to treatment of a peculiar nature.[2]

Another Athenian physician of this name is quoted by Pliny,[3] of whom it is only known that he must have lived some time before the middle of the 1st century AD.

  1. ^ Greenhill, William Alexander (1867), "Aeschines (4)", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, p. 40
  2. ^ Eunapius, in vita Proaeres. p. 76, ed. Boisson
  3. ^ Pliny the Elder, Historia Naturalis xxviii. 10