Cleophantus
Κλεόφαντος
(Κλεόφαντος).
1. A Greek physician, who lived probably about the beginning of the third century B. C., as he was the tutor of Antigenes (Cael. Aurel. De Morb. Acut. 2.10. p. 96) and Mnemon. (Gal. Comment. in Hippocr. " Epid. III." 2.4, 3.71, vol. xvii. pt. i. pp. 603, 731.) He seems to have been known among the ancients for his use of wine, and is several times quoted by Pliny (Plin. Nat. 20.15, 24.92, 26.8), Celsus (De Medic. 3.14. p. 51), Galen (De Compos. Medicam. sec. Locos, 9.6, vol. xiii. p. 310; De Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen. 7.7, vol. xiii. p. 985; De Antid. 2.1, vol. xiv. p. 108), and Caelius Aurelianus (De Morb. Aout. 2.39, p. 176).
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.