Archibius
Ἀρχίβιος
(Ἀρχίβιος), a Greek surgeon, of whom no particulars are known, but who must have lived in or before the first century after Christ, as he is quoted by Heliodorus (in Cocchi's Graecor. Chirurg. Libri, &c., Flor. 1754, fol. p. 96) and Galen. (De Antid. 2.10, vol. xiv. p. 159; De Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen. 5.14, vol. xiii. p. 849.) Pliny mentions (H. N. 18.70) a person of the same name who wrote a foolish and superstitious letter to Antiochus, king of Syria; but it is uncertain which king is meant, nor is it known that this Archibius was a physician.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.