Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Epicles

by William Alexander Greenhill

EPICLES (Ἐπικλῆς), a medical writer quoted by Erotianus (Gloss. Hippocr. p. 16), who wrote a commentary on the obsolete words found in the writings of Hippocrates, which he arranged in alphabetical order. He lived after Baccheius, and therefore probably in the second or first century b.c. [W. A. G.]