Cassius Felix

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Cassius Felix was a North African-Roman doctor in the 5th century AD .

Cassius Felix came from Cirta , the capital of the Roman province of Numidia . Like Caelius Aurelianus, he was a translator of Greek-language medical books into Latin . His work De medicina: ex graecis logicae sectae auctoribus liber, translatus sub Artabure et Calepio consulibus , which was written around the year 447, has survived . In 82 chapters it describes numerous clinical pictures known in antiquity . Cassius Felix used the works of Galenus of Pergamon , Hippocrates and Vindicianus as sources .

reception

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

expenditure

  • Valentin Rose (Ed.): Cassii Felicis De medicina ex graecis logicae sectae auctoribus liber translatus. Leipzig 1879 (in the series Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana ).
  • Kai Brodersen : Cassius Felix, Medical Practice . Lat.- German Bilingual edition. Darmstadt (wbg) 2020. ISBN 978-3-534-27232-7

literature

  • Gerhard Bendz: Studies on Caelius Aurelianus and Cassius Felix. Lund 1964 (= Skrifter utgivna av vetenskapssocieteten i Lund , 55).
  • Alb. Köhler: Manuscripts of Roman physicians, II: Cassius Felix. In: Hermes , Volume 18, 1888, pp. 392-395.
  • Alf Önnerfors : The medical Latin from Celsus to Cassius Felix. In: Wolfgang Haase, Hildegard Temporini (ed.): Rise and decline of the Roman world. History and culture of Rome as reflected in recent research. Volume II.34.1, Berlin / New York 1993, ISBN 3-11-001885-3 , pp. 227-392, 250 ff.
  • Hermann Orth: The African Cassius Felix - a methodical doctor? Sudhoff's archive for the history of medicine and the natural sciences. 44, 1960. pp. 193-217.
  • Otto Probst: Biographical to Cassius Felix. In: Philologus , Volume 67, 1908, pp. 319-320.
  • Gerhard Roßbach, Peter Proff: Cassius Felix interpretations: Parts I and II. Part 1: The Proömium and the dental sections of the 'Liber de medicina'. Part 2: Glossary of Drugs and Dietetic Foods from the Liber de medicina. (Medical dissertations, Würzburg 1985) Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1991 (= Würzburg medical-historical research. Volume 37).
  • Eduard Wölfflin; About the Latinity of the African Cassius Felix. In: Session reports of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences: philosophical-philological and historical class. 1880, pp. 381-432.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jacques André: Remarques sur la traduction des mots grecs dans les textes médicaux du V e siècle (Cassius Félix et Caelius Aurélianus). In: Revue Philologique , Volume 37, 1963, pp. 47-67.
personal data
SURNAME Cassius Felix
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cassius Medicus; Cassius Africanus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman doctor
DATE OF BIRTH 4th century or 5th century
DATE OF DEATH 5th century