Aristion (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]

Not to be confused with Ariston (physician).

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.

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