Alexippus

Alexippus (Ancient Greek: polytonic|Ἀλέξιππος) was an ancient Greek physician who was mentioned by Plutarch as having received a letter from Alexander the Great himself, to thank him for having cured one of his officers, a man named Peucestas, of a wound incurred during a bear hunt probably around 327 BC. [Plutarch, "Alcippus" 41] cite encyclopedia | last = Greenhill | first = William Alexander | authorlink = | title = Alexippus | 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] [cite book | last = Heckel | first = Waldemar | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Who's Who in the Age of Alexander the Great: Prosopography of Alexander's Empire | publisher = Blackwell Publishing | date = 2006 | location = Oxford | pages = 21 | url = http://www.google.com/books?id=JJ4K1wFZkrsC | doi = | id = | isbn = 1-40511-210-7]

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