Xenocrates (; fl. 1st century) a Greek physician of Aphrodisias in Cilicia,Galen, De Simplic. Medicam. Temper, ac Facult., vi. praef. vol. xi. p. 793 who must have lived about the middle of the 1st century, as he was probably a contemporary of Andromachus the Younger.Galen, De Compos. Medicam. sec. Loc., iii. 1, vol. xii. p. 627; De Ther. ad Pis., c. 12. vol. xiv. p. 260. Galen says that he lived in the second generation before himself.Galen, De Simplic. Medicam. Temper. ac Facult., x. 1. vol. xii. p. 248 He wrote some pharmaceutical works, and is blamed by Galen for making use of disgusting remedies, for instance, human brains, flesh, liver, bone ash, urine, excrement, etc. One of his works was entitled On Useful Things from Living Beings ().Galen, De Simplic. Medicam. Temper, ac Facult., x. 2. § 4, vol. xii. p. 261 He is several times quoted by Galen, and also by Clement of Alexandria;Clement of Alexandria, Stromata, i. p. 717 Artemidorus;Artemidorus, Oneirocr., iv. 24 Pliny;Pliny, H. N., xx. 82 Oribasius;Oribasius, Coll. Medic., ii 58, p. 225 Aëtius;Aëtius, i. 2. 84, iv. 2. 35, 3. 14, pp. 75, 706, 760 and Alexander of Tralles.Alexander of Tralles, i. 15, xii. 8, pp. 156, 344 Besides some short fragments of his writings there is extant a synopsis of a work on marine creatures, () preserved by Oribasius.
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