Nicias
2. A native of Nicopolis, in the second century after Christ, introduced by Plutarch in his Symposiaca (7.1.1), as one of the speakers in the discussion, whether what is drunk enters the lungs. Nicias rightly maintained that it did not.
The writer on stones, Περὶ Λίθων, quoted by Plutarch (Parall. § 13, De Fluv. 20.4) and Stobaeus (Floril. tit. 100.12. p. 541), is a different person, and does not appear to have been a physician, though so classed by Fabricius (Bibl. Gr. vol. xiii. p. 346, 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.