Pasicrates

(Πασικράτης), prince of Soli in Cyprus, was one of those who submitted to Alexander, and repaired in person to meet the conqueror at Tyre, in B. C. 331, on which occasion he took a prominent part in the festivities and theatrical entertainments then celebrated on a scale of unparalleled magnificence. (Plut. Alex. 29.) His son Nicocles accompanied the king throughout his campaigns in Asia. (Arrian Ind. 18.) He was succeeded by Eunostus, probably before B. C. 315. (See Athen. 13.576e.; Droysen, Hellenism. vol. i. p. 339, n.) [E.H.B]

(Πασικράτης), literary.

1. Of Rhodes, who wrote a lost Commentary on the Categories of Aristotle. For the opinion that he wrote the second book of the Metaphysics of Aristotle, see Eudemus. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. iii. pp. 211, 501.)

2. A servant of St. George of Cappadocia, to whom is attributed an account of his master's life, edited in Greek by Lipomann (in the> Acta Sanctorum, vol. iii.), and in Latin by Linus (ubi supra, p. 117) and by Surius (vol. ii. ad 23 April). This life, as well as the others of St. George, are universally admitted to be unworthy of credit. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. x. p. 229; Vossius, de Hist. Graec. p. 294, ed. Westermann.) [Georgius, No. 7, p. 248.] [W.M.G]

(Πασικράτης), physician who appears to have given much attention to the preparation of surgical apparatus, as his name is several times mentioned by Oribasius in his book on that subject (De Machin. cc. 26, 29, 31, pp. 182, 183, 190, 192). He was the father of Aristion * In the extract front Oribasius, given by Ang. Mai, in the fourth vol. of his "Classici Auctores e Vaticanis Codicibus editi" (Rom. 8vo. 1831), we should read υἱόνinstead of πατέρα, in p. 152, 50.23, and Ἀριστίων instead of Ἀρτίων, in p. 158, 50.10 (ibid. cc. 24, 26, pp. 180, 183), and as he lived probably after Nymphodorus ibidd. p. 180) and before Heliodorus (p. 160), he may be conjectured to have lived in the second or first century B. C. He is probably the physician quoted by Asclepiades Pharmacion ap. Gall. De Compos. Medicam,sec. Locos, 8.8, vol. xiii. p. 213. If, with Mead (De Numis qnibusdam a Smyrnaeis in Honorem Medicorum percitsis, p. 51) and Fabricins (Bibl. Graec. vol. xiii. p. 357, ed. vet.), we suppose that certain coins with the nane of Pasicrate upon them, were struck in honour of this physician, we may add to the above particulars, that he was a native of Smyrna, and a follower of Erasistratus ; that his grandtfather's naine was Pasicrates, andl his father's Capiro; and that he was brother of Menodorus, and ftaher of Metrodorus. [W.A.G]