Asclapo

Asclapo was a Greek physician of ancient Rome who lived in Patrae, in Achaia, and who attended on Cicero's freedman, Marcus Tullius Tiro, during an illness of his in 51 BCE.^[1] Cicero was so much pleased by his kindness and his medical skill that he wrote a letter of recommendation for him to Servius Sulpicius Rufus in 47 BCE.^[2] Though some later writers thought that Cicero's commendation of Asclapo was "distinctly cool" compared to similar commendations he wrote for other doctors, indicating his praise of Asclapo wasn't as sincere.^[3]

References

^ Cicero, Ad Familiares 16.9
^ Cicero, Ad Familiares 13.20
^ Nutton, Vivian (1985). "Lay attitudes to medicine in classical antiquity". In Porter, Roy (ed.). Patients and Practitioners: Lay Perceptions of Medicine in Pre-industrial Society. Cambridge University Press. pp. 39–40. ISBN 9780521530613. Retrieved 2024-06-08.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Greenhill, William Alexander (1870). "Asclapo". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 378.

[1] Cicero, Ad Familiares 16.9

[2] Cicero, Ad Familiares 13.20

[3] Nutton, Vivian (1985). "Lay attitudes to medicine in classical antiquity". In Porter, Roy (ed.). Patients and Practitioners: Lay Perceptions of Medicine in Pre-industrial Society. Cambridge University Press. pp. 39–40. ISBN 9780521530613. Retrieved 2024-06-08.

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