Pausanias
2. A physician who attended Craterus, one of the generals of Alexander the Great, and to whom the king addressed a letter when he heard he was going to give his patient hellebore, enjoining him to be cautious in the use of so powerful a medicine, probably about B. C. 324. (Plut. Alex. 100.41.)
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