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Androcydes
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English
Alternative forms
en Androkydes
Etymology
Borrowing from en grc Ἀνδροκύδης.
Proper noun
Any of certain male historical figures of Ancient Greece:
Androcydes of Cyzicus, a Greek painter of the 4th century BCE.
A Greek physician and writer of the 4th century BCE, who according to Pliny advised Alexander the Great to moderate his drinking.
en 1821 Henry Phillips Pomarium Britannicum: An Historical and Botanical Account of Fruits Known in Great Britain Henry Colburn & Co. https://books.google.com.au/books?id=cxQDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA208&dq=%22Androcydes%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjy4IGHmfXgAhUQAXIKHQy3DQ8Q6AEIlAIwLA#v=onepage&q=%22Androcydes%22&f=false 208 On the other hand, Androcydes, in his letter to Alexander the Great, says, (to correct his intemperate drinking of wine,) “My good lord, remember that when you take your wine, that you drink the very blood of the earth: hemlock, you know, Sir, is poison to man, even so is wine to hemlock."
A Pythagorean who lived before the 1st century BCE and possibly as early as the 4th.
en 2013 Johan C. Thom The Pythagorean Akousmata and Early Pythagoreanism Gabriele Cornelli; Richard McKirahan; Constantinos Macris On Pythagoreanism Walter de Gruyter https://books.google.com.au/books?id=1HLnBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA79&dq=%22Androcydes%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjy4IGHmfXgAhUQAXIKHQy3DQ8Q6AEIPzAF#v=onepage&q=%22Androcydes%22&f=false 79 A work by Androcydes, called On the Pythagorean Symbola (Περὶ Πυθαγορικῶν συμβόλων), may have been in existence as early as the fourth century, but was definitely in circulation by the first century BCE.
en Ancient Greek.
Usage notes
Some writers identify the Pythagorean with the physician.
Translations
Any of certain male figures of Ancient Greece
Italian: it Androcide m