Metrodorus
4. The physician mentioned by Cicero (Ep. ad Famil. 16.20) as attending on his freedman Tiro, B. C. 46.
One of the above (perhaps the third) is quoted by Marbodus (De Gemmis), and called by him " maximus auctor." (See Fabric. Bibl. Gr. vol. xiii. p. 337, ed. vet.)
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.