Andronicus () was an

ancient Greek Ancient Greek (, ; ) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the classical antiquity, ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Greek ...

physician. Andronicus was mentioned by

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, and also by

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, and can thus be dated in or before the second century. No other particulars are known respecting him; but it may be remarked, that the Andronicus quoted several times by Galen with the epithet ''Peripateticus'' or ''Rhodius'', is probably another person. Both

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and

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, ''Bibliotheca Graeca'' vol. xiii. p. 62, ed. vet. referred to him as "Andronicus Ticianus," but this is considered a mistake by later scholars, as Andronicus and Titianus appear to have been two different persons.

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