Serenus Sammonicus

Sammonicus Serenus († probably 211) was a Roman scholar, mentor of Geta and Caracalla, as well as author of medical didactic poem De medicina praecepta (which may be incomplete as received ) as well as many lost works.

He was "a man of books in an archaic world" and " a worthy successor to Fronto and Aulus Gellius, whose social status was closely linked to the prevailing passion for grammar and mastery of ancient teachings. " According to Macrobius, the Serenus works for his Saturnalia plundered, he was " the most knowledgeable man of his time ". Serenus had a library of 60,000 volumes.

His work Res reconditae was mentioned in at least five antique books, however, is only preserved in these quotations. The traditional, written in 1115 hexameters work De medicina praecepta includes a number of popular remedies that Pliny and Dioscorides Pedanios are borrowed, as well as various magical formulas, including the famous Abracadabra, as a cure for fever and malaria. It ends with the famous antidote of Mithridates of Pontus.

In medieval times it was often used and is relevant to the history of ancient medicine. Syntax and meter are remarkably accurate. The often rather unreliable Historia Augusta, according to the popular physicist and polymath was assassinated in December 211 along with other friends of Geta, at a dinner to which he was invited by Caracalla, a short time after he had murdered his brother.

The first printed edition of De medicina praecepta was edited by Johannes Sulpitius Verulanus, before 1484th

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