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Headword:
*de/cippos
Adler number: delta,238
Translated headword: Dexippos, Dexippus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Of Cos, a doctor, a pupil of
Hippocrates. Summoned by Hecatomnus, the king of Caria, to cure his sons Mausolus and Pixodarus when they were desperately ill, he did cure them, on condition that Hecatomnus promise to end the war which was then in progress between them and the Carians. He wrote a
Book for Doctors in 1 [volume] and
On Prognoses in 2.
*de/cippos, *kw=|os, i)atro/s, *(ippokra/tous maqhth/s: o(\s metapemfqei\s u(po\ *(ekato/mnou tou= *karw=n basile/ws i)a/sasqai au)tou= tou\s pai=das a)pognwsqe/ntas *mauswlo\n kai\ *picw/daron, e)pi\ u(posxe/sei i)a/sato tou= pau=sai to\n pro\s *ka=ras to/te au)toi=s e)nestw=ta po/lemon. e)/grayen *)iatriko\n bibli/on a# kai\ *peri\ prognw/sewn b#.
Notes:
Early C4 BCE.
Dexippos, mentioned only in the Suda (here and in the derivative
pi 1627), was evidently part of a considerable intellectual coterie at the Hecatomnid court; see in brief
Simon Hornblower in
The Cambridge Ancient History (second edition) 6.231. For Hecatomnus see
epsilon 367.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 22 October 2001@06:53:03.
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