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- MENE'CRATES, a sculptor, of whom we only know, what shows him, however, to have been a very eminent artist, that he was the teacher of Apollonius and Tauriscus, the sculptors of the celebrated group of the Farnese Bull. (Plin. H. N. xxxvi. 5. s. 4. § 10.) (Wikisource | public domain)
- MENE'CRATES (Μενεκράτης), a Syracusan physician at the court of Philip, king of Macedon, b. c. 359 — 336. He seems to have been a successful practitioner, but to have made himself ridiculous by calling himself 'Jupiter,' and assuming divine honours. (Suid. s. v. Μενεκράτης.) He once wrote a letter to Philip, beginning Μενεκράτης Ζεὺς Φιλίππῳ Χαίρειν, to which the king wrote back an answer in these words, Φίλιππος Μενεκράτει ὑγιαίνειν.* (Athen. vii. p. 289 ; Aelian. Var. Hist. xii. 51.) He was invited one day by Philip to a magnificent entertainment, where the other guests were sumptuously fed, while he himself bad nothing but incense and libations, as not being subject to the human infirmity of hunger. He was at first pleased with his reception, but afterwards, perceiving the joke, and finding that no more substantial food was offered him, he left the party in disgust. (Athen, Aelian, l. c.) * According to Plutarch, it was Agesilaus from whom he got this answer to his letter. (Vita Ages. c. 21, vol. vi. p. 29, ed. Tauchn. ; Apophthegm. Reg. et Imper. vol. ii. p. 52, Apophthegm. Lacon. vol. ii. p. 109.) (Wikisource | public domain)
- Tiberius Claudius Quirina (Κουίρεινα†) Menecrates, a physician mentioned in a Greek inscription (Gruter, Inscript. p. 581. § 9), is no doubt the same person who is frequently quoted by Galen. He lived in the former part of the first century after Christ, and was physician to some of the emperors, probably to Tiberius and Claudius. He enjoyed a great reputation, and composed more than 150 medical works, of which only a few fragments remain. He was the inventor of the well-known plaister called diachylon (i. e. διὰ χυλῶν), and his directions for preparing it were put into verse by Damocrates. (Galen, de Compos. Medicom. sec. Gen. vii. 9, 10, vol. xiii. pp. 995, &c.) In consequence of his having observed how easily the signs and contractions used in medical formulae were mistaken by careless transcribers, he wrote the quantities, &c. in his prescriptions at full length ; but Galen tells us (l. c.) that his carefulness did not much benefit posterity, as his works were afterwards written with the usual contractions. The Menecrates Zeophletensis (or native of Zeophleta ?) quoted by Caelius Aurelianus (De Morb. Chron. i. 4, p. 323) may be the same person as the preceding. (Wikisource | public domain)
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (ed. William Smith 1870), Wikisource | public domain
Lewis Short
Mĕnecrătes (noun M) : Μενεκράτης.
* A poet of Ephesus, who wrote of husbandry, Varr. R. R. 1, 1, 9.
* A freedman of Pompey, Plin. 35, 18, 58, § 200.
* A poet of Ephesus, who wrote of husbandry, Varr. R. R. 1, 1, 9.
* A freedman of Pompey, Plin. 35, 18, 58, § 200.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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Confirmed occurences in the Roman Empire:
Confirmed occurences in the Roman Empire:
- Ti. Claudius Menecrates (Masc), ref: PIR C 0937 | PIR ID4374
- Iulius Menecrates (Masc), ref: PIR I 0430 | PIR ID7631
- Menecrates (Masc), ref: PIR M 0493 | PIR ID9169
Prosopographia Imperii Romani
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