Metrodorus
3. The author of the work quoted by Pliny (Plin. Nat. 20.81), and entitled Ἐπιτομὴ τῶν Ῥιζοτομουμένων, appears to have been a different person (though sometimes reckoned as the same), and may be supposed to have been a contemporary of Cratevas in the first century B. C. (Plin. Nat. 25.4.)
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.