one of the most celebrated physicians among the ancients, was a native of Prusa in Bithynia, and practised physic at Rome under Pompey 96 years before the Christian era. He was the head of a new sect; and, by making use of wine and cold water in the cure of the sick, acquired a very great reputation. He wrote several books, which are frequently mentioned by Galen, Celsus, and Pliny; but they do not now exist.

a famous physician under Adrian, of the same city with the former. He wrote several books concerning the composition of medicines, both internal and external.

ASCODUTÆ, in Antiquity, a sect of heretics in the second century, who rejected all use of symbols and sacraments, on this principle, that incorporeal things can- not be communicated by things corporeal, nor divine mysteries by any thing visible.