Iphicia'nus
（
Ἰφικιανός), a physician, who is mentioned four times by Galen, and whose name is in each passage spelt differently, viz.
Ἰφικιανός (
Comment. in Hippocr. De Offic. Med. 1.3, vol. xviii. pt. ii. p. 654),
Ἐφικιανός (
De Ord. Libror. suor. vol. xix. p. 58),
Φικιανός (
Comment. in Hippocr. " Epid. III." 1.29, vol. xvii. pt. i. p. 575), and
Φηκιανός (
Comment, in Hippocr." De Humor." 3.34, vol. xvi. p. 484.)
The form of the name here adopted is considered by Fabricius (
Bibl. Gr. vol. iii. p. 571, xiii. p. 302, ed. vet.) to be the most correct, but M. Littre, in his edition of Hippocrates (vol. i. p. 113), seems to prefer
phecianus. He was a pupil of Quintus, and one of the tutors of Galen, about the middle of the second century after Christ.
Works
Commentaries on Hippocrates
He was a follower of the Stoic philosophy, and commented on part or the whole of the works of Hippocrates.
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