Hicesius (Greek: Ἱκέσιος) was a Greek physician, who lived probably at the end of the 1st century BC, as he is quoted by Crito, and lived shortly before Strabo. He was a follower of Erasistratus, and was at the head of a celebrated medical school established at Smyrna. He is several times quoted by Athenaeus, who says that he was a friend of the physician Menodorus; and also by Pliny, who calls him "a physician of no small authority." There are extant two coins struck in his honour by the people of Smyrna.
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- ap. Galen., De Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen., v. 3, vol. xiii.
- Strabo, xii.
- Athenaeus, ii. 59
- Pliny, H. N., xxvii. 14
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