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Olympicus

Ὀλυμπικός

(Ὀλυμπικός), sometimes called Olympiacus, but probably incorrectly, a physician of Miletus, who belonged to the sect of the Methodici, though he did not embrace all their doctrines. (Galen, Introd. 100.4, vol. xiv. p. 684.) He was the tutor of Apollonius of Cyprus (Galen, De Meth. Med. 1.7, vol. x. p. 54), and therefore lived in the first century after Christ. Galen does not appear to have thought very highly of him, as he calls him "a frivolous (ληρώδης) person" (Ibid. p. 53), and criticizes severely his definition of the words υγιεία and πάθος. (Ibid. pp. 54, &100.67,&c.)

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.