Aristion (physician)

Not to be confused with Ariston (physician).

Aristion (Ancient Greek: Ἀριστίων) was a surgeon of ancient Greece, probably belonging to the Alexandria School of Medicine. He was the son of Pasicrates,[1] who belonged to the same profession.[2] Nothing is known of the events of his life; with respect to his date, he may be conjectured to have lived in the second or first century BC, as he lived after Nymphodorus, and before Heliodorus.[3]

References

  1. ^ In the extract from Oribasius, given by A. Mai in the fourth volume of his Classici Auctores e Vaticanis Codicibus Editi, Rom. 8vo., 1831, we should read υἱόν instead of πατέρα in p. 152, 1. 23, and Ἀριστίων instead of Ἀρτίων in p. 158, 1.10
  2. ^ Oribas. De Machinam. cc. 24, 26. pp. 180, 183
  3. ^ Oribas. ibid. p. 180

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Greenhill, William Alexander (1870). "Aristion (2)". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 298.