Polyeides
Πολυείδης
(Πολυείδης), a Greek physician who must have lived in or before the first century after Christ, as he is quoted by Celsus (De Med. 5.20.2, 26.23, 6.7.3, pp. 91, 100, 127) and Andromachus (ap. Gal. De Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen. 5.12, vol. xiii. p. 834).
Works
A Pharmaceutical Work
He appears to have written a pharmaceutical work, as his medical formulae are several times referred to by Galen (De Meth. Med. 5.6, 6.3, vol. x. pp. 330, 405, Ad Glauc. de Meth. Med. 2.3, 11, vol. xi. pp. 87, 137, De Simplic. Medicam. Temper. ac Facult. 10.2.13, vol. xii. p. 276, De Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen. 3.3, vol. xiii. p. 613), Caelius Aurelianus (De Morb. Acut. 3.3, 5, pp. 186, 198), Paulus Aegineta (4.25, 7.12, pp. 514, 663), Aetius (3.1. 48, 4.2. 50, 58, 4.4. 64, pp. 504, 715, 725, 809), Oribasius (Ad Eunap. 4.128, p. 674), and Nicolaus Myrepsus (De Compos. Medicam. 41.44, p. 788).
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.