Androcydes

English

Alternative forms

• Androkydes

Etymology

Borrowing from Ancient Greek [Term?].

Proper noun

Androcydes

1. Any of certain male historical figures of Ancient Greece:
   1. Androcydes of Cyzicus, a Greek painter of the 4th century BCE.
   2. A Greek physician and writer of the 4th century BCE, who according to Pliny advised Alexander the Great to moderate his drinking.
      • 1821, Henry Phillips, Pomarium Britannicum: An Historical and Botanical Account of Fruits Known in Great Britain, Henry Colburn & Co., page 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."

   3. A Pythagorean who lived before the 1st century BCE and possibly as early as the 4th.
      • 2013, Johan C. Thom, “The Pythagorean Akousmata and Early Pythagoreanism”, in Gabriele Cornelli, Richard McKirahan, Constantinos Macris, editors, On Pythagoreanism, Walter de Gruyter, page 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.

2. A surname from Ancient Greek.

Usage notes

Some writers identify the Pythagorean with the physician.

Translations

Any of certain male figures of Ancient Greece

• Italian: Androcide m