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Androcydes (physician)

Androcydes (or Androkydes, fl. 4th century BCE) () was a Greek physician and writer at the time of Alexander the Great. According to Pliny, he advised Alexander to moderate his drinking:

Elsewhere, Androcydes is supposed to have recommended cabbage to counteract the effects of wine. Some attempts have been made to identify this Androcydes with the Androcydes who wrote on Pythagoreanism, as the advice regarding wine (bad) and cabbage (good) may reflect Pythagorean dietary discipline.

Androcydes, if the same authority is meant, may not have confined himself to writing on medical topics. He is cited by Athenaeus for an etymology of the Greek word kolax, "flatterer," which is taken by one prosopographer as evidence of his association with Alexander's court.

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  1. ''[[Natural History (Pliny). Historia naturalis]]'' 14.58.
  2. Implying that wine is an antidote to hemlock; but the meaning in context is obscure.
  3. Translation and note on hemlock by John Bostock (London 1855).
  4. [[Theophrastus]], ''On Plants'' 4.16.6 (see Pliny, ''Historia naturalis'' 17.240 for similar advice), as cited by Waldemar Heckel, ''Who's Who in the Age of Alexander the Great'' (Blackwell, 2006), p. 289 [https://books.google.com/books?id=JJ4K1wFZkrsC&dq=Androcydes+cabbage&pg=PA289 online.]
  5. Gillian Clark, ''Iamblichus: On the Pythagorean Life'' (Liverpool University Press, 1989), p. 64, note 145 [https://books.google.com/books?id=N9vrHlJVck8C&dq=ANdrokydes&pg=PA64 online.]
  6. Discussed in the course of [[Cato the Elder]]’s effusions on the virtues of cabbage, ''On Agriculture'' 157, Bill Thayer’s edition at [[LacusCurtius]] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cato/De_Agricultura/K*.html#157 online.]
  7. [[Athenaeus]], ''Deipnosophistae'' 6.258b; in context, the speaker Clearchus sets out this etymology in order to contradict it.
  8. Waldemar Heckel, ''Who's Who in the Age of Alexander the Great'' (Blackwel, 2006), p. 28 [https://books.google.com/books?id=JJ4K1wFZkrsC&dq=Androcydes&pg=PA28 online.]
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