Dioscorides
Διοσκουρίδης
(Διοσκουρίδης or Διοσκορίδης), the name of several physicians and botanical writers, whom it is not easy to distinguish from each other with certainty.
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.