Quintus Serenus
Quintus Serenus (also called Quintus Serenius or Quinctius Serenus Sammonicus , but these name forms are not authentic) was a Roman medicine writer. The dates of his lifetime vary between the 2nd and 4th centuries. He is not, as was previously believed, to be equated with the scholar Serenus Sammonicus .
Serenus wrote the medical didactic poem De medicina praecepta , which may be incomplete in its preserved form. The work, which consists of 1,115 hexameters , deals with a number of popular remedies borrowed from Pliny and Pedanios Dioscurides , as well as various magical formulas, including the well-known abracadabra , as a cure for fever and malaria. It ends with the famous antidote of Mithridates of Pontus .
It was widely used in the Middle Ages and is relevant to the history of ancient medicine. The syntax and meter are remarkably correct.
Johannes Sulpitius Verulanus obtained the first printed edition of De medicina praecepta before 1484.
Text output
- Friedrich Vollmer (Ed.): Quinti Sereni Liber medicinalis. Leipzig / Berlin 1916 (= Corpus Medicorum Latinorum . Volume II, 3) ( Internet Archive ). Supplements to this: Vollmer: Supplements to the edition of Q. Sereni Liber medicinalis . In: Philologus 75, pp. 128-133.
- R. Pépin: Q. Serenus, Liber medicinalis. Paris 1950.
- Cesare Ruffato: La medicina in Roma antica. Il Liber medicinalis di Quinto Sereno Sammonico. Turin 1996.
- Kai Brodersen (Ed.): Quintus Serenus, Medical Council (Liber medicinalis), Latin / German , Tusculum Collection , Berlin / Boston 2016. 192 pp. ISBN 978-3-11-052712-4
literature
- Kurt Smolak , Klaus-Dietrich Fischer : Q. Serenus. In: Reinhart Herzog (ed.): Restoration and renewal. The Latin literature from 284 to 374 AD (= Handbook of the Latin Literature of Antiquity , Volume 5). CH Beck, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-406-31863-0 , pp. 315-320
- Alain Touwaide: Quinctius Serenus Sammonicus. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 11, Metzler, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-476-01481-9 , column 451 f.
- Burkhart Cardauns : Serenus (Quintus S. or Serenius). In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1321 f.
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| SURNAME | Serenus, Quintus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Serenus, Quintus Sammonicus; Serenus Sammonicus, the younger; Serenus Samonicus, Quintus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd century |
| DATE OF DEATH | at 211 |