Apollodorus () is the name of two physicians mentioned by

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, one of whom was a native of Citium (modern

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), in

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, the other of Tarentum (modern

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). Perhaps it was one of these who wrote to Ptolemy, king of Egypt, giving him directions as to what wines he should drink, though to which king of this name his precepts were addressed is not mentioned. A person of the same name wrote a work ''Ointments and Chaplets'' (Περὶ Μύρων καὶ Στεφάνων) quoted by

Athenaeus Athenaeus of Naucratis (, or Nαυκράτιος, ''Athēnaios Naukratitēs'' or ''Naukratios''; ) was an ancient Greek rhetorician and Grammarian (Greco-Roman), grammarian, flourishing about the end of the 2nd and beginning of the 3rd century ...

, and another, quoted by the same author, ''On Venomous Animals'' (Περὶ Θηρίων), which is possibly the work that is several times referred to by Pliny.

, ''

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'' 22.15, 29, &c.

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