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SERENUS, SAMMONICUS

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SERENUS, SAMMONICUS , See also:Roman savant, author of a didactic medical poem, De medicina praecepta (probably incomplete). The See also:work (1115 hexameters) contains a number of popular remedies, borrowed from See also:Pliny and Dioscorides, and various magic formulae, amongst others the famous See also:Abracadabra (q.v.), as a cure for See also:fever and See also:ague. It concludes with a description of the famous antidote of See also:Mithradates VI. of See also:Pontus. It was much used in the See also:middle ages, but is of little value except for the See also:ancient See also:history of popular See also:medicine. The syntax and See also:metre are remarkably correct. It is uncertain whether the author was the famous physician and polymath, who was put to See also:death in A.D. 212 at a banquet to which he had been invited by See also:Caracalla, or his son, the See also:tutor of the younger See also:Gordian. The See also:father, who was one of the most learned men of his See also:age, wrote upon a variety of subjects, and possessed a library of 6o,000 volumes, bequeathed to his son and handed on by the latter to Gordian. The editio princeps (ed. Sulpitius Verulanus, before 1484) is very rare; later ed. by J. G. See also:Ackermann (See also:Leipzig, 1786) and E.

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Latini minores, iii. ; see also A. See also:Baur, Quaesliones Sammoniceae (See also:Giessen, 1886) ; M. Schanz, Geschichte der rimischen Literatur, (1896); See also:Teuffel, Hist. of Roman Literature (Eng. trans., 1900), 374, 4, and 383.

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