Alexias

Alexias (Greek: polytonic|Ἀλεξίας) was an ancient Greek physician who was a pupil of Thrasyas of Mantinea, and lived probably around the middle of the 4th century BC.cite encyclopedia | last = Greenhill | first = William Alexander | authorlink = | title = Alexias | editor = William Smith | encyclopedia = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology | volume = 1 | pages = 128 | publisher = Little, Brown and Company | location = Boston | year = 1867 | url = http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moa;cc=moa;idno=acl3129.0001.001;q1=demosthenes;size=l;frm=frameset;seq=143] Theophrastus mentions him as having lived shortly before his time, and speaks highly of his abilities and acquirements. [Theophrastus, "Hist. Plant." ix. 16. ~ 8] He was said to have equalled his master Thrasyas in the science of botany, and to have exceeded him in other areas. [cite book | last = Rose | first = Hugh James | authorlink = | coauthors = Rose, Henry John | title = A New General Biographical Dictionary | publisher = | date = 1857 | location = London | pages = 293 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=UDd_ArBPBp0C | doi = | id = | isbn = ]

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