Antonius (herbalist)
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The medical formulae of Antonius are several times quoted by Galen,[1][2] and he is perhaps the same person who is called " the druggist" elsewhere (φαρμακοπώλης).[3] Possibly they may both be identical with Antonius Castor, but of this there is no proof whatever.
A treatise on the pulse, which goes under Galen's name, but which is probably a spurious compilation from his other works on this subject, is addressed to a person named Antonius, who is there called "studious and philosophical" (Φιλομαθὴς καὶ Φιλόσοφος);[4] and Galen wrote his work The Passions of the Soul (De Propriorum Animi Cuiuslibet Affectuum Dignotione et Curatione) in answer to a somewhat similar treatise by an Epicurean philosopher of this name, who, however, does not appear to have been a physician.[5]
Antonius is possibly the same man as Antonius Castor, the renowned botanist and pharmacologist mentioned Pliny the Elder.[6]
Notes
- ^ Galen, De Compositione Medicamentorum Secundum Locus 2.1, vol. xii. p. 557
- ^ Galen, De Compositione Medicamentorum per Genera 6.15, vol. xiii. p. 935
- ^ Galen, De Compositione Medicamentorum Secundum Locus 9.4, vol. xiii. p. 281
- ^ Galen, Opera, vol. xix. p. 629
- ^ Galen, Opera, vol. v. p. 1, &c.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Greenhill, William Alexander (1870). "Antonius". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 218.