Meges of Sidon

Meges (Greek: Μέγης; 1st century BC) an eminent surgeon, born at Sidon in Phoenicia,^[1] who practised at Rome with great reputation and success, shortly before the time of Celsus, and therefore probably in the 1st century BC.^[2] He wrote some works which are highly praised and several times quoted by Celsus, but of which nothing remains. He is, perhaps, the same person who is quoted by Pliny,^[3] Galen,^[4] and Scribonius Largus.^[5] A Greek fragment by Meges is preserved by Oribasius.^[6]

Notes

1. ^ Galen, De Meth. Med. vi. 6, vol. x. p. 454
2. ^ Celsus, De Medic. vii. praef.
3. ^ Pliny, H. N. xxxii. 24
4. ^ Galen, De Compos. Medicam. sec. Locos, iii. 3, v. 3, vol. xii. pp. 684, 845
5. ^ Scribonius Largus, De Compos. Medicam. c. 70. §202, p. 227
6. ^ Oribasius, Coll. Medic. xliv. 14

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).