Aristophilus () 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 ...

''pharmakopōlēs'', an ancient occupation that today would probably be translated as "druggist", "remedy seller", or "

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". He was from

Plataea Plataea (; , ''Plátaia'') was an ancient Greek city-state situated in Boeotia near the frontier with Attica at the foot of Mt. Cithaeron, between the mountain and the river Asopus, which divided its territory from that of Thebes. Its inhab ...

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, and lived probably around the fourth century BCE. He is mentioned by

Theophrastus Theophrastus (; ; c. 371 – c. 287 BC) was an ancient Greek Philosophy, philosopher and Natural history, naturalist. A native of Eresos in Lesbos, he was Aristotle's close colleague and successor as head of the Lyceum (classical), Lyceum, the ...

as possessing the knowledge of certain

anaphrodisiac An anaphrodisiac (also antaphrodisiac or antiaphrodisiac) is a substance that quells or blunts the libido. It is the opposite of an aphrodisiac, something that enhances sexual appetite. The word ''anaphrodisiac'' comes from the Greek privati ...

medicines, which he made use of either for the punishment or reformation of his slaves. Scholar Suzanne Amigues suggested that this Aristophilus was the same person as the ''pharmakopōlēs'' named "Aristobulus" described by

Aeschines Aeschines (; Greek: ; 389314 BC) was a Greek statesman and one of the ten Attic orators. Biography Although it is known he was born in Athens, the records regarding his parentage and early life are conflicting; but it seems probable that h ...

in his '' Against Ctesiphon'', father of the youth Aristion of Plataea who lived for a time in the house of the statesman

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References

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