Cassius Felix fl. 447

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urn:cite:perseus:author.329
Stoa id:
stoa0077a
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no2002062176
Name:
Cassius Felix fl. 447
Abbr:
Cass. Fel.
Alt names:
Felix, Cassius
Felix, Africanus
Cassius, Africanus
Cassio, Felice
Cassius Felix, Medicus
Cass. Fel.
Field of activity:
Physician
Notes:
De la meĢdecine, 2002: t.p. (Cassius Felix) p. vii (from Cirta (renamed Constantina) in Numidia?
wrote De medicina in 447) p. viii (African origin
seems to have been a practicing medical specialist himself) p. ix (may be the same as an imperial physician of Carthage named Felix, 426-427)
OCLC, June 25, 2002 (hdgs.: Cassius Felix, fl. 447, Felicus, Cassius
usage: Cassii Felicis)
Der neue Pauly, c1996- (Cassius Felix
physician from Cirta
translated Greek-language medical writings, wrote or translated De medicina 447 A.D.)
Oxford classical dict., 1996
Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, Vol , 1867, p. 1:
Brill's New Pauly: "Cassius Felix, Physician and translator, 5th cent. AD, Physician from Cirta, translator of Greek language medical writings, wrote or translated in AD 447 for his son a piece of writing titled De medicina, later used by Isidor (Orig. 4,8,4). ....f all Latin authors of medical writings, he makes the most frequent use of Galen and writings from the Hippocratic tradition"....Nutton, Vivian (London). Cassius." Brill's New Pauly. Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and Helmuth Schneider . Brill, 2008. Brill Online. Tufts University Library. 30 December 2008
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De medicina