Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Craterus 3.

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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870)
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Craterus (physician)

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4748119Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology — Craterus (physician)1870William Smith (1813-1893)

CRA'TERUS (Κρατερός), a Greek physician, who is mentioned in Cicero’s Letters (ad Att. xii. 13, 14) as attending the daughter of Atticus, Attica (called also Caecilia or Pomponia), B.C. 45. He is mentioned also by Horace (Sat. ii. 3. 161), Persius (Sat. iii. 65), and Galen (De Compos. Medicum. sec. Locos, vii. 5, vol. xiii. p. 96, De Antid. ii. 8. vol. x. p. 147); and he may perhaps be the same person who is said by Porphyry (De Abstin. ab Animal. i. 17, p. 61, ed. Cantab.) to have cured one of his slaves of a very remarkable disease.[W. A. G.]