Philetes
Φιλήτης
(Φιλήτης), a Greek physician, who lived probably in the fifth century β. ξ., as he is mentioned by Galen as a contemporary of some of the most ancient medical men. He was one of the persons to whom some ancient critics attributed the treatise Περὶ Διαίτης, De Victus Ratione, which forms part of the Hippocratic Collection. (Galen, De Aliment. Faculty. 1.1, vol. vi. p. 473.)
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.