Acumenus

Acumenus (Greek: Ἀκουμενός) was a physician of Athens who lived in the 5th century BC, and is mentioned as the friend and companion of Socrates.^[1][2] He was the father of Eryximachus, who was also a physician, and who is introduced as one of the speakers in Plato's Symposium.^[3][4] He is also mentioned in the collection of letters first published by Leo Allatius in 1637 (Epist. Socralis et Socraticorum), and again by Orellius in 1815.^[5]

References

1. Plato, Phaedrus init.
2. Xen. Memor. iii. 13. § 2
3. Plato, Protagoras p. 315, c.
4. Plato, Symposium p. 176, c
5. Greenhill, William Alexander (1867), "Acumenus", in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1, Boston, MA, p. 17

Sources

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "^{article name needed}". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.