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Gorgias

Γοργίας

(Γοργίας).

1. A physician at Rome, a friend and contemporary of Galen in the second century after Christ, to whom Galen dedicated his work De Causis Procatarcticis. (Galen, De Locis Affect. 5.8. vol. viii. p. 362; De Caus. Procat. vol. vii. pp. 347, 352, ed. Chart.)

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.