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'''Scribonius Largus''' (c. 1-c. 50) was the court [[physician]] to the Roman emperor [[Claudius]]. |
'''Scribonius Largus''' (c. 1-c. 50) was the court [[physician]] to the Roman emperor [[Claudius]]. |
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About 47 AD, at the request of [[Gaius Julius Callistus]], the emperor's freedman, he drew up a list of 271 prescriptions (''Compositiones''), most of them his own, although he acknowledged his indebtedness to his tutors, to friends, and to the writings of eminent physicians. Certain traditional remedies are also included. The work has no pretensions to style, and contains many colloquialisms. The greater part of it was transferred without acknowledgment to the work of [[Marcellus Empiricus]] (c. 410), ''De Medicamentis Empiricis, Physicis, et Rationabilibus'', which is of great value for the correction of the text of Largus. |
About 47 AD, at the request of [[Gaius Julius Callistus]], the emperor's freedman, he drew up a list of 271 prescriptions (''Compositiones''), most of them his own, although he acknowledged his indebtedness to his tutors, to friends, and to the writings of eminent physicians.<ref name="HornblowerSpawforth2014">{{cite book|author1=Simon Hornblower|author2=Antony Spawforth|author3=Esther Eidinow|title=The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TkW_BAAAQBAJ&pg=PT352|date=11 September 2014|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-101676-9|pages=352–}}</ref> Certain traditional remedies are also included. The work has no pretensions to style, and contains many colloquialisms. The greater part of it was transferred without acknowledgment to the work of [[Marcellus Empiricus]] (c. 410), ''De Medicamentis Empiricis, Physicis, et Rationabilibus'', which is of great value for the correction of the text of Largus. |
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See the edition of the ''Compositiones'' by [[S. Sconocchia]] ([[Teubner]] 1983), which replaced the well-outdated edition<ref>[http://forumromanum.org/literature/scribonius_largus/conpositiones.html Online but not complete.]</ref> of [[G. Helmreich]] (Teubner 1887). |
See the edition of the ''Compositiones'' by [[S. Sconocchia]] ([[Teubner]] 1983), which replaced the well-outdated edition<ref>[http://forumromanum.org/literature/scribonius_largus/conpositiones.html Online but not complete.]</ref> of [[G. Helmreich]] (Teubner 1887). |
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Scribonius Largus (c. 1-c. 50) was the court physician to the Roman emperor Claudius.
About 47 AD, at the request of Gaius Julius Callistus, the emperor's freedman, he drew up a list of 271 prescriptions (Compositiones), most of them his own, although he acknowledged his indebtedness to his tutors, to friends, and to the writings of eminent physicians.[1] Certain traditional remedies are also included. The work has no pretensions to style, and contains many colloquialisms. The greater part of it was transferred without acknowledgment to the work of Marcellus Empiricus (c. 410), De Medicamentis Empiricis, Physicis, et Rationabilibus, which is of great value for the correction of the text of Largus.
See the edition of the Compositiones by S. Sconocchia (Teubner 1983), which replaced the well-outdated edition[2] of G. Helmreich (Teubner 1887).
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
Works
- De compositione medicamentorum liber. Cratandrus, Basileae 1529 Digital edition by the University and State Library Düsseldorf
- Kai Brodersen: Scribonius Largus, Der gute Arzt / Compositiones. Latin and German. Marix, Wiesbaden 2016. ISBN 978-3-7374-1017-5
References
- ^ Simon Hornblower; Antony Spawforth; Esther Eidinow (11 September 2014). The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization. OUP Oxford. pp. 352–. ISBN 978-0-19-101676-9.
- ^ Online but not complete.
- James Grout: Scribonius Largus, part of the Encyclopædia Romana
