Numenius
Νουμήνιος
(Νουμήνιος), a medical writer, quoted by Celsus (5.18.35, 21.4, pp. 88, 92) and Aetius (4.1.20, p. 621, in which passage for Numius we should read Numenius). He is, perhaps, the native of Heracleia, who was a pupil of Dieuches, and lived probably in the fourth or third century B. C. (Athen. 1.5.) He wrote a poem on fishing, Ἁγιευτικά, which is frequently quoted by Athenaeus. A person of the same name, who wrote on venomous animals, Θηριακά, is quoted by the Scholiast on Nicander. (Fabric. Bibl. Gr. vol. ii. p. 627, 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.