Cleophantus

• A physician in Rome, Cic. Clu. 16, 47; Cels. 3, 14; Plin. 20, 5, 15, § 31 al.—
• II A painter of Corinthus, Plin. 35, 3, 5, § 15.

(Κλεόφαντος).

1. A Greek physician, who lived probably about the beginning of the third century B. C., as he was the tutor of Antigenes (Cael. Aurel. De Morb. Acut. 2.10. p. 96) and Mnemon. (Gal. Comment. in Hippocr. " Epid. III." 2.4, 3.71, vol. xvii. pt. i. pp. 603, 731.) He seems to have been known among the ancients for his use of wine, and is several times quoted by Pliny (Plin. Nat. 20.15, 24.92, 26.8), Celsus (De Medic. 3.14. p. 51), Galen (De Compos. Medicam. sec. Locos, 9.6, vol. xiii. p. 310; De Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen. 7.7, vol. xiii. p. 985; De Antid. 2.1, vol. xiv. p. 108), and Caelius Aurelianus (De Morb. Aout. 2.39, p. 176).

2. Another physician of the same name, who attended A. Cluentius Avitus in the first century B. C., and who is called by Cicero " medicus ignobilis, sed spectatus homo" (pro Cluent. 16), must not be confounded with the preceding. [W.A.G]

one of the mythic inventors of painting at Corinth, who is said to have followed Demaratus in his flight from Corinth to Etruria. (Plin. Nat. 35.5.) [L.U]