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Aulus Cornelius Celsus (c. 25 BC – c. 50 AD) was a Roman encyclopaedist, known for his extant medical work, De Medicina, which is believed to be the only surviving section of a much larger encyclopedia. The De Medicina is a primary source on diet, pharmacy, surgery and related fields, and it is one of the best sources concerning medical ...
Celsus. Celsus (/ ˈsɛlsəs /; Hellenistic Greek: Κέλσος, Kélsos; fl. AD 175–177) was a 2nd-century Greek philosopher and opponent of early Christianity. [1][2][3] His literary work, The True Word (also Account, Doctrine or Discourse; Greek: Hellenistic Greek: Λόγος Ἀληθής), [4][5] survives exclusively in quotations from ...
Celsus was a very common name, and Origen, perhaps as innuendo, expresses uncertainty about whether Celsus is the same person as Celsus the Epicurean. This may have been an attempt to discredit Celsus, since Epicureanism was disreputable, and in any case Celsus's philosophical writings are Platonist and incompatible with Epicureanism.
De medicina, 1528 edition published by Aldo Manuzio. De Medicina is a 1st-century medical treatise by Aulus Cornelius Celsus, a Roman encyclopedist and possibly (but not likely) a practicing physician. [1][2][3] It is the only surviving section of a much larger encyclopedia; only small parts still survive from sections on agriculture, military ...
Lithograph of Aulus Cornelius Celsus. Celsus (25 BC–AD 50) was a Roman encyclopaedist who wrote a general encyclopaedia about many subjects. His exact place of birth as well as when he lived are unknown; however, it is known he lived during the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius. [31] The only surviving work from his larger encyclopaedia is De ...
Aulus Marius Celsus was a Roman senator who held several offices in the emperor's service during the first century AD, as well as playing a role in the Year of Four Emperors. He was suffect consul of the nundinium of July to August 69 as the colleague of Gnaeus Arrius Antoninus. [1]
Aulus Plautius was the uncle whose "distinguished service" saved his nephew Plautius Lateranus, (another son of Quintus Plautius) [11] from execution in 48 after his affair with Messalina was discovered. Lateranus was removed from his senatorial position and exiled instead. [19] Lateranus was later executed for his involvement in the Pisonian ...
Battle of Mutina. Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus (27 April 81 BC – September 43 BC) was a Roman general and politician of the late republican period and one of the leading instigators of Julius Caesar 's assassination. He had previously been an important supporter of Caesar in the Gallic Wars and in the civil war against Pompey.