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ND NATURAL HISTORY NICANDER of Colophon, a celebrated grammarian, poet, and physician, who lived about the 160th Olympiad, 140 years before Christ, in the reign of Attalus king of Pergamus, who overcame the Gallo-Greeks. He lived many years in Etolia, of which country he wrote a history. He wrote also many other works, of which only two are now remaining. The one is entitled Theriaca, describing in verse the accidents attending wounds made by venomous beasts, with the proper remedies; the other bearing the title of Alexipharmaca, wherein he treats poetically of poisons and their antidotes. This Nicander is not to be confounded with Nicander of Thyatira.