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
edit- ^ De Compos. Medicam. secund. Locos, ix. 4. vol. xiii. p. 278
- ^ De Antid. ii. 12. vol. xiv. p. 177.
- ^ a b Greenhill, William Alexander (1867), "Abascantus", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, p. 2
- ^ De Compos. Medicam. secund. Locos, vii. 3. vol. xiii. p. 71
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Greenhill, William Alexander (1870). "Abascantus". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 2.
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