Abascantus

Abascantus (Ancient Greek: Ἀβάσκαντος) was a physician of Lugdunum, who probably lived in the 2nd century AD. He is mentioned several times by Galen,[1] who has also preserved an antidote invented by him against the bite of serpents.[2] The name appears in numerous Latin inscriptions in Gruter's collection, five of which refer to a freedman of Augustus, who is supposed by some scholars to be the same person that is mentioned by Galen.[3] This identification is uncertain, as also whether Parakletios Abaskanthos (Παρακλήτιος Ἀβάσκανθος) in Galen[4] refers to the subject of this article.[3]

References

  1. ^ De Compos. Medicam. secund. Locos, ix. 4. vol. xiii. p. 278
  2. ^ De Antid. ii. 12. vol. xiv. p. 177.
  3. ^ a b Greenhill, William Alexander (1867), "Abascantus", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, p. 2
  4. ^ De Compos. Medicam. secund. Locos, vii. 3. vol. xiii. p. 71
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