Philonides
Φιλωνίδης
(Φιλωνίδης).
1. A physician of Catana in Sicily, the tutor of Paccius Antiochus (Scribon. Larg. De Compos. Medicare. 23.97. p. 209; Marcell. Empir. De Medicam. 100.20, p. 324), who lived about the beginning of the Christian era. He is probably the physician who is quoted by Dioscorides, and said by him to have been a native of Enna in Sicily (De Mat Med. 4.148, vol. i. p. 629); by Erotianus (Lex. Hrppocr. p. 144); and also by Galen, who refers to his eighteenth book, Περὶ Ἰατρικῆς, De Medicina. (De Differ. Puls. 4.10, vol. viii. p. 748.)
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.