Alexias

{{Short description|4th-century BC Greek physician}}

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Alexias (Greek: {{lang|grc|Ἀλεξίας}}) was an ancient Greek physician who was a pupil of Thrasyas of Mantinea, and lived probably around the middle of the 4th century BC.{{cite encyclopedia | last = Greenhill | first = William Alexander | title = Alexias | editor = William Smith | editor-link = William Smith (lexicographer) | encyclopedia = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology | volume = 1 | pages = 128 | publisher = Little, Brown and Company | location = Boston | year = 1867 | url = http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moa;cc=moa;idno=acl3129.0001.001;q1=demosthenes;size=l;frm=frameset;seq=143}} Theophrastus mentions him as having lived shortly before his time, and speaks highly of his abilities and acquirements.Theophrastus, Hist. Plant. ix. 16. ~ 8 He was said to have equalled his master Thrasyas in the science of botany, and to have exceeded him in other areas.{{cite book | last = Rose | first = Hugh James | author-link = Hugh James Rose |author2=Henry John Rose |author2-link=Henry John Rose | title = A New General Biographical Dictionary | year = 1857 | location = London | pages = 293 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=UDd_ArBPBp0C }}