Archibius () was a Greek surgeon, of whom no particulars are known, but who must have lived in or before the first century CE, as he is quoted by both HeliodorusCocchi, Graecor. Chirurg. Libri, &c., Flor. 1754, fol. p. 96 and Galen.Galen, De Antid. 2.10, vol. xiv. p. 159Galen, De Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen. 5.14, vol. xiii. p. 849
The naturalist Pliny the Elder mentions a person of the same name who wrote a superstitious letter to Antiochus, king of Syria; but it is uncertain which king is meant, nor is it known that this Archibius was a physician.Pliny the Elder, Natural History 18.70
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