Eryximachus
Ἐρυξίμαχος
(Ἐρυξίμαχος), a Greek physician, who lived in the fourth century B. C., and is introduced in the Convivium of Plato (p. 185) as telling Aristophanes how to cure the hiccup, and in the mean time making a speech himself on love or harmony (Ἐρως, which he illustrated from his own profession.
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.