Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Calligenes

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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.]