Metrodorus
2. A pupil of Sabinus, in the first and second centuries after Christ, is mentioned by Galen as one of those who had commented on part of the Hippocratic Collection (Comment. in Hippocr. " Epid. III." 1.4, " Epid. VI." 1.29, vol. xvii. pt. i. pp. 508, 877), and is probably the physician who was one of the followers of Asclepiades. (Galen, De Simpl. Medicam. Temper. ac Fcultt. 1.29, 35, vol. xi. pp. 432, 442.)
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.