Antipater (Greek: Ἀντίπατρος) was a Greek physician and author of a work titled On the Soul, of which the second book is quoted by the Scholiast on Homer,[1] in which he said that the soul increased, diminished, and at last perished with the body; and which may very possibly be the work quoted by Diogenes Laërtius,[2] and commonly attributed to Antipater of Tarsus.

If he is the physician who is said by Galen[3] to have belonged to the Methodic school, he must have lived in or after the 1st century BC; and this date will agree very well with the fact of his being quoted by Andromachus,[4] Scribonius Largus,[5] and Caelius Aurelianus.[6] His prescriptions are frequently quoted with approbation by Galen and Aetius, and the second book of his "Epistles" is mentioned by Caelius Aurelianus.

Notes

  1. ↑ Il. L. 115. p. 306, ed. Bekker; Cramer, Anc.cd. Graeca Paris. vol. iii. p. 14
  2. ↑ Diogenes Laërtius, vii. 157
  3. ↑ Galen, De Meth. Med. i. 7, vol. x. p. 52; Introd. c. 4. vol. xiv. p. 684
  4. ↑ Andromachus ap. Galen, De Compos. Medicam. sec. Locos, iii. 1, ix. 2, vol. xii. p.630, vol. xiii. p.239
  5. ↑ De Compos. Medicam c. 167, p. 221
  6. ↑ Caelius Aurelianus, De Morb. Chron. ii. 13, p. 404.
  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Antipater". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.



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