Hicesius
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
in the texts
On the Mysteries
A fluteplayer slave present according to Andromachus.
The audience had also included slaves, namely, himself, his brother, the fluteplayer Hicesius, and Meletus’ slave.
Protrepticus
Author cited (On Mysteries) for the Sauromatae's reverence of the scimitar.
and of the Scythians, the Sauromatae, as Hicesius says in his work On Mysteries, reverence the scimitar.
De Anima
Physician criticized for holding that the soul is added to the infant by the shock of cold air at birth.
Nor among the physicians too was Hicesius lacking, a prevaricator both of nature and of his own art.