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Διεύχης

(Διεύχης), a Greek physician, who lived probably in the fourth century B. C., and belonged to the medical sect of the Dogmatici. (Galen, de Ven. Sect. adv. Erasistr. 100.5, vol. xi. p. 163; comp. Id. de Simplic. Medical. Temper. ac Facult. vi. prooem. vol. xi. p. 795, de Meth. Med. 1.3, 7.3, vol. x. pp. 28, 462, Comment. in Hippocr. "de Nat. Hom." 2.6, vol. xv. p. 136.) He was tutor to Numenius of Heraclea (Athen. 1.5.8), and is several times quoted by Pliny. (H. N. 20.15, 33, 73, 23.29, 24.92.) He wrote some medical works, of which nothing but a few fragments remain. (Ruf. Ephes., ed. Matthaei; XXI Vet. Medic. Graec. Opusc. ed. Matthaei; C. G. Kühn, Additam. ad Elench. Medic. Vet. a J. A. Fabric. exhibit. fasc.xiii. p.6.)

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.