Craterus
Κρατερός
(Κρατερός), a Greek physician, who is mentioned in Cicero's Letters (ad Att. 12.13, 14) as attending the daughter of Atticus, Attica (called also Caecilia or Pompoma), B. C. 45. He is mentioned also by Horace (Sat. 2.3. 161), Persius (Sat. 3.65), and Galen (De Compos. Medicam. sec. Locos, 7.5, vol. xiii. p. 96, De Antid. 2.8. vol. x. p. 147); and he may perhaps be the same person who is said by Porphyry (De Abstin. ab Animal. 1.17, p. 61, ed. Cantab.) to have cured one of his slaves of a very remarkable disease.
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.