Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Heras

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HERAS ("Upas), a physician of Cappadocia, who lived after Heracleides of Tarentum (Galen, De Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen. v. 6, vol. xiii. p. 812), and before Andromachus (Galen, De Com- pos. Medicam. sec. Loc. vi. 9, vol. xii. p. 989), and therefore probably in the first century b. c. He wrote some works on pharmacy, which are very frequently quoted by Galen, but of which nothing but a few fragments remain. Ilis prescriptions oia quoted also by other ancient medical writers, and he may perhaps be the physician mentioned by Martial {Epigr. vi. 78. 3). See C. G. Kuhn, Additam. ad Elench. Medic. Vet. a J. A. Fabric. in Bibl. Graeca " exUhitum. [W. A. G.]