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;
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;
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.
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.
Acumenus, he said, has a good prescription for that ailment.
he answered, Stop eating;