Artemidorus Capito

Artemidorus Capito(n) (Greek: Ἀρτεμίδωρος ὁ Καπίτων, Artemídōros ho Kapitōn; fl.

[1] Artemidorus was a Greek physician and grammarian active at Rome in the reign of the emperor Hadrian, AD 117–138.

He was a relation of Dioscorides, who also edited the works of Hippocrates, and he is frequently mentioned by Galen.

He is, however, accused of making considerable changes in the text, and of altering the old readings and modernising the language.

Capito, a physician, probably lived in the first or second century AD, and appears to have given particular attention to diseases of the eyes.