Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Calligenes

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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870)
Various Authors, edited by William Smith

Calligenes

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2722123Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology — Calligenes1870Various Authors

CALLl′GENES (Καλλιγένης), the name of the physician of Philip, Wmg of Macedonia, who attended him in his last illness at Amphipolis, B. C. 179, and concealed his death from the people till the arrival of Perseus, to whom he had sent intelligence of the great danger of the king. (Liv. xl. 56.) [W. A. G.]