Nicomedes
6. Of Smyrna, a physician and epigrammatist. Brunck has inadvertently attributed to him eight epigrams that belong to Nicodemus. We have two epigrams written by him, both votive, and engraved on the same statue, which was one of Aesculapius, fabricated by the sculptor Boethus. The style proves that they were written long after the time of Boethus. Indeed the first epigram bears this expressly, χειρῶν δεῖγμα παλαιγενέων. We have also an epitaph on Nicomedes. (Anthol. Graec. vol. iii. p. 92, &c. x. p. 131, &c. xiii. p. 924. &c. ed. Jacobs.)
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