Albucius

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Albucius or Albutius was a physician of ancient Rome, who lived probably about the beginning or middle of the 1st century, and who is mentioned by Pliny as having gained by his practice the annual income of two hundred and fifty thousand sesterces.[1] This is considered by Pliny to be a very large sum, and may therefore give us some notion of the fortunes made by physicians at Rome about the beginning of the empire.[2]

See also

  • Albucia (gens)

References

  1. ^ Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia xxix. 5)
  2. ^ Greenhill, William Alexander (1867), "Albucius", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, p. 94, archived from the original on 2008-05-01, retrieved 2008-06-17

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainSmith, William, ed. (1870). "Albucius". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.