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Cleomenes

Κλεομένης

(Κλεομένης), the name of a physician introduced by Plutarch in his Symposiacon (6.8.5, ed. Tauchn.) as giving his opinion on the nature and cause of the disease called bulimia, in the first century after Christ.

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.