Hierophilus
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Works
Ἱεροφιλου Σοφιστοῦ περὶ Τροφῶν Κύκλος· ποίᾳ δεῖ χρᾶσθαι ἑκάστῳ μηνὶ, καὶ ὁποίοις ἀπέχεσθαι
The author of a short Greek medical treatise, entitled Ἱεροφιλου Σοφιστοῦ περὶ Τροφῶν Κύκλος· ποίᾳ δεῖ χρᾶσθαι ἑκάστῳ μηνὶ, καὶ ὁποίοις ἀπέχεσθαι, Hierophili Sophistae de Alimentis Circulus; quibusnam uti, et a quibusnam abstinere oportcat. This was for some time, while still in MS., supposed to be the work of Herophilus, but as soon as it was examined and published, it plainly appeared to belong to some late writer of the eleventh or twelfth century after Christ. It contains dietetical directions for every month in the year, and is full of words unknown to the older Greek writers.
Editions
It was first published by Boissonade in the eleventh volume of the Notices et Extraits des Manuscrits de la Biblioth. du Roi (Paris, 1827), p. 178, &c.; and is inserted in the first volume of Ideler's Physici et Medici Graeci Minores, Berol. 1841. 8vo.
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.