Herophilus
a veterinary surgeon at Rome in the first century B. C., is said by Valerius Maximus (9.15. 1) to have passed himself off as the grandson of C. Marius, and thus to have raised himself to some degree of consequence.
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.