Ariston () was a

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, of whose life no particulars are known, but who probably lived in the fifth century BCE, as

Galen Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus (; September 129 – AD), often Anglicization, anglicized as Galen () or Galen of Pergamon, was a Ancient Rome, Roman and Greeks, Greek physician, surgeon, and Philosophy, philosopher. Considered to be one o ...

mentions him with three other physicians, who all (he says) lived in old times, some as contemporaries of

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, and the others before him. Galen also says that he was by some persons supposed to be the author of the work in the Hippocratic Collection titled "On a Healthy Diet" (Περι Διαίτης Ὑγιεινῆς). A medical preparation by a person of the same name is quoted by

Cornelius Celsus Aulus Cornelius Celsus ( 25 BC 50 AD) was a Roman encyclopedist, known for his extant medical work, ''De Medicina'', which is believed to be the only surviving section of a much larger encyclopedia. The ''De Medicina'' is a primary source on di ...

and Galen. The other Ariston mentioned by Galen is

Aristo of Chios Aristo of Chios ( ''Ariston ho Chios''; fl. c. 260 BC), also spelled Ariston, was a Greek Stoic philosopher and colleague of Zeno of Citium. He outlined a system of Stoic philosophy that was, in many ways, closer to earlier Cynic philosophy. He ...

, a different person.

, ''De Hippocr. et Plat. Decret.'' 5.5, 7.1, 2, vol. v. pp. 468, 589, 596

References

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