Servilius Damocrates (or Democrates; ) was a Greek physician at

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in the middle to late 1st century AD. He may have received the

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"Servillius" from his having become a client of the

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calls him ἄριστος ἰατρός, and Pliny says he was "''e primis medentium''," and relates his cure of Considia, the daughter of

Marcus Servilius Marcus Servilius was a Roman senator who was active during the reigns of the emperors Augustus and Tiberius. He was ordinary consul in AD 3 as the colleague of Lucius Aelius Lamia. Servilius was the son of Marcus Servilius, plebeian tribune in 4 ...

. He wrote quite a few pharmaceutical works in Greek iambic verse, of which there only remain the titles and some extracts preserved by

.Galen, ''De Compos. Medicam. sec. Locos.'', v. 5, vii. 2, viii. 10, x. 2, vol. xii., vol. xiii.; ''De Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen.'', i. 19, v. 10, vi. 12, 17, vii. 8, 10, 16, vol. xiii.; ''De Antid.'' i. 15, ii. 2, etc, 15, vol. xiv.

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