Botrys
Βότρυς
(Βότρυς), a Greek physician, who must have lived in or before the first century after Christ. His writings are not now extant, but they were used by Pliny for his Natural History. (Ind. to H. N. xiii. xiv.) One of his prescriptions is preserved by Galen. (De Compos. Medicam. sec. Locos. iii l. vol. xii. p. 640.)
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.