Acumenus
historical figure · 3 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
in the texts
Phaedrus
A friend of Socrates and Phaedrus whose advice about walking routes is mentioned.
and on the advice of your friend and mine, Acumenus, I am taking my walk on the roads;
So Sophocles would say that the man exhibited the preliminaries of tragedy, not tragedy itself, and Acumenus that he knew the preliminaries of medicine, not medicine itself.
if anyone should go to your friend Eryximachus or to his father Acumenus and should say I know how to apply various drugs to people, so as to make them warm or, if I wish, cold, and I can make them vomit, if I like, or can make their bowels move, and all that sort of thing;
On the Mysteries
A man exiled after Lydus' information and related to a witness.
Philippus and Alexippus are related to Acumenus and Autocrator, who fled in consequence of the information lodged by Lydus;
Memorabilia
Physician or medical authority cited for a simple remedy concerning appetite.
he answered, Stop eating;
Acumenus, he said, has a good prescription for that ailment.