person
Glyco
also: Glycon, Glycona, Glyco
Glyco, physician who attended consul Gaius Vibius Pansa as he died from wounds after the battle of Forum Gallorum (April 43 BC); accused by some of deliberately poisoning his patient, he was held in custody at Rome.
Reading notes
- Ad M. Brutum 1.6 §2 Glyco, the physician of Pansa
Glyco was the personal physician who attended Gaius Vibius Pansa as he lay dying after the battle of Forum Gallorum (April 43 BC); rumours circulated — apparently fomented by partisans of Octavian — that he had poisoned his patient.