Archidamus () was a physician of

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of whom no particulars are known, but who must have lived in the fourth or fifth century BCE, as

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quotes one of his opinions, which was preserved by the medical writer

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. A physician of the same name is mentioned by Pliny, though it is unclear if these two individuals are indeed the same.

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, ''

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'' Ind. Auct. A few fragments titled "On Veterinary Surgery" by a person named "Archedemus" are to be found in the ''Veterinariae Medicinae Libri Duo'' of

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. These were first published in Latin in Paris in 1530, and afterwards in Greek by

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in 1537. It is also unclear whether this is originally by the same physician.

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