Erasistratus, A noble Phisition of the house of Aristotle: who for healyng King Antiochus, receyued of Prolomeus his fonne a hundreth talents, which doe amount of our money, to 14000. 375. li. He was before the incarnation of Christe 243. yeares.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Ĕrăsistrătus, i, m., = *)erasi/stratos, a famous physician of Alexandria in the time of Ptolemy Lagus, the founder of a medical school, Plin. 29, 1, 3, 5; Val. Max. 5, 7 ext. 1; Cels. praef. 3, 4; 4, 4 et saep.