Servilius Damocrates (or Democrates; el, Δαμοκράτης, Δημοκράτης) was a Greek physician at

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in the middle to late 1st century AD. He may have received the

praenomen The ''praenomen'' (; plural: ''praenomina'') was a personal name chosen by the parents of a Roman child. It was first bestowed on the ''dies lustricus'' (day of lustration), the eighth day after the birth of a girl, or the ninth day after the bi ...

"Servillius" from his having become a client of the

Servilia gens The gens Servilia was a patrician family at ancient Rome. The gens was celebrated during the early ages of the Republic, and the names of few gentes appear more frequently at this period in the consular Fasti. It continued to produce men of influ ...

Galen Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus ( el, Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; September 129 – c. AD 216), often Anglicized as Galen () or Galen of Pergamon, was a Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher in the Roman Empire. Considered to be one of ...

calls him ἄριστος ἰατρός, and

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says he was "''e primis medentium''," and relates his cure of Considia, the daughter of

Marcus Servilius Marcus Servilius was a Roman senator who was active during the reigns of the emperors Augustus Caesar Augustus (born Gaius Octavius; 23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14), also known as Octavian, was the first Roman emperor; he reigned ...

. He wrote quite a few pharmaceutical works in Greek iambic verse, of which there only remain the titles and some extracts preserved by

.Galen, ''De Compos. Medicam. sec. Locos.'', v. 5, vii. 2, viii. 10, x. 2, vol. xii., vol. xiii.; ''De Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen.'', i. 19, v. 10, vi. 12, 17, vii. 8, 10, 16, vol. xiii.; ''De Antid.'' i. 15, ii. 2, etc, 15, vol. xiv.

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