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SERENUS, SAMMONICUS

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 663 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SCY-SHA
SERENUS, SAMMONICUS , Roman savant, author of a didactic medical poem, De medicina praecepta (probably incomplete). The
work
  (1115 hexameters) contains a number of popular remedies, borrowed from Pliny and Dioscorides, and various magic formulae, amongst others the famous Abracadabra (q.v.), as a cure for fever and ague. It concludes with a description of the famous antidote of
Mithradates
  VI. of Pontus. It was much used in the middle ages, but is of little value except for the ancient history of popular
medicine
 . The syntax and metre are remarkably correct. It is uncertain whether the author was the famous physician and polymath, who was put to death in A.D. 212 at a banquet to which he had been invited by
Caracalla
 , or his son, the tutor of the younger
Gordian
 . The father, who was one of the most learned men of his 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.
Ackermann
  (
Leipzig
 , 1786) and E. Bahrens, Poetae
Latini
  minores, iii. ; see also A.
Baur
 , Quaesliones Sammoniceae (Giessen, 1886) ; M. Schanz, Geschichte der rimischen Literatur, (1896); Teuffel, Hist. of Roman Literature (Eng. trans., 1900), 374, 4, and 383.


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