Asclepiodotus

• a biographer of Diocletian, Vop. Aur. 44.

(Ἀσκληπιόδοτος.)

1. The author of an epigram which seems to have been taken from the base of a statue of Memnon. (Anthol. Graec. Append. No. 16, ed. Tauchnitz.; comp. Brunck. Analect. i. p. 490; Letronne in the Transactions of the R. Society of Literature, vol. 2.1, part 1.1832.)

2. Of Alexandria, the most distinguished among the disciples of Proclus, and the teacher of Damascius, was one of the most zealous champions of Paganism. He wrote a commentary on the Timaeus of Plato, which however is lost. (Olympiod. Meteorolog. 4; Suidas, s. v. Ἀσκληπώδοτος; Damascius, Vit. Isid. ap. Phot. pp. 344, b. 345, b.)

3. An author who lived in the time of Diocletian, and seems to have written a life of this emperor. (Vopisc. Aurelian. 44.) He seems to be the same as the one who is mentioned as a general in the reign of Probus. (Vopisc. Prob. 22.)

4. A pupil of Posidonius, who, according to Seneca (Nut. Quaest. 6.17), wrote a work called "Quaestionum Naturalium causae."

5. A commander of the Gallic mercenaries in the army of Perseus, king of Macedonia. (Liv. 42.51, 44.2.) [L.S]

(Ἀσκληπιόδοτος), a physician, who was also well versed in mathematics and music, and who grew famous for reviving the use of white hellebore, which in his time had grown quite out of vogue. He lived probably about the end of the fifth century after Christ, as he was the pupil of Jacobus Psychrestus, and is mentioned by Damascius. (Damascius, apud Phot. Cod. 242, p. 344b., ed. Bekk.; Suidas, s. v. Σωρανος; Freind's Hist. of Physic.) [W.A.G]

a man of great wealth among the Bithynians, shewed the same respect to Soranus, when he was under Nero's displeasure, as he had when Soranus was in prosperity. He was accordingly deprived of his property and driven into exile, A. D. 67, but was restored by Galba. (Tac. Anns. 16.33; D. C. 62.26.)

(Ἀσκληπιόδοτος). A Greek writer, pupil of the Stoic Posidonius of Rhodes, who died B.C. 51. On the basis of his lectures Asclepiodotus seems to have written the military treatise preserved under his name on the Macedonian military system.