Asclepiades, A famous phisition. Also a philosopher, which beeing blinde, was demaunded in scorne, what his blindeesse profited him: he answered, that hee had the more companie by one boy that ledde him. It is also the name of an hystoriographer of Typres, and diners other men.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Asclēpĭădes, ae, m., = *)asklhpia/dhs. I.A distinguished physician of Prusa, in Bithynia, friend of Crassus, Cic. de Or. 1, 14, 62; Cels. 3, 4; Plin. 7, 37, 37, 124; 26, 3, 8, 15 sq.; Cael. Aur. Tard. 3, 8.—II.A blind philosopher of Eretria, Cic. Tusc. 5, 39, 113.—III.A Greek poet, inventor of the metre named after him metrum Asclepiadeum (e. g. Hor. C. 1, 1: Maecenas atavis edite regibus), Diom. p. 508 P.