Cassius Felix

Cassius Felix was a Roman physician in the 5th century AD.

Cassius Felix came from Cirta, the capital of the Roman province of Numidia. He is known as a translator of Greek-speaking, medical books into Latin. Tradition has his work De medicina ex Graecis logicae sectae auctoribus liber, Translatus sub Artabure et Calepio consulibus, which originated around the year 447. It describes in 82 chapters, numerous well-known in ancient diseases. Sources Cassius Felix drew on works of Galen of Pergamum, Hippocrates and Vindicianus.

Reception

In the early Middle Ages, Isidore of Seville used the De medicina as a template for the 4th book of his Encyclopedia Etymologiae.

Output

• Valentin Rose: Cassii Felicis De medicina. Leipzig, 1879.