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Polycritus

Πολύκριτος

(Πολύκριτος), a physician at the court of Artaxerxes Mnemon, king of Persia, in the fourth century B. C. (Plut. Art. 21). He was a native of Mende in Macedonia, and not a "son of Mendaeus," as Fabricius states (Bibl. Gr. vol. xiii. p. 376, 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.