Dioscorus

(Διόσκοριος).

1. A physician, probably born at Tralles in Lydia, in the sixth century after Christ. His father's name was Stephanus, who was a physician (Alex. Trail. de Re Med. 4.1, p. 198); one of his brothers was the physician Alexander Trallianus; another was the architect and mathematician, Anthemius; and Agathias mentions that his two other brothers, Metrodorus and Olympius, were both eminent in their several professions. (Hist. v. p. 149.)

2. Another physician of the same name, must have lived some time in or before the second century after Christ, as one of his medical formulae is quoted by Galen. (De Compos. Medicam. sec. Locos, 8.7, vol. xiii. p. 204.) [W.A.G]