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Quintus Serenus Sammonicus (died 212) was a Roman savant and tutor to Geta and Caracalla who became fatally involved in politics; he was also author of a didactic medical poem, Liber Medicinalis ("The Medical Book"; also known as De medicina praecepta saluberrima),[1] probably incomplete in the extant form, as well as many lost works.

Serenus Sammonicus
Bornc. 2nd century AD
Pergamon
(modern-day Bergama, İzmir, Turkey)
Died212 AD
OccupationPhysician
Tutor

Works and influence


Serenus Sammonicus advocated the use of abracadabra as a literary amulet against fever
Serenus Sammonicus advocated the use of abracadabra as a literary amulet against fever

Serenus was "a typical man of letters in an Age of Archaism[2] and a worthy successor to Marcus Cornelius Fronto and Aulus Gellius, one whose social rank and position is intimately bound up with the prevailing passion for grammar and a mastery of ancient lore".[3] According to Macrobius, who referenced his work for his Saturnalia, he was "the learned man of his age".[4] Maurus Servius Honoratus and Arnobius[5] both employed his erudition to their own ends.[6] He possessed a library of 60,000 volumes.[7]

His most quoted work was Res reconditae, in at least five books, of which fragments only are preserved in quotations. The surviving work, De medicina praecepta, in 1115 hexameters, contains a number of popular remedies, borrowed from Pliny the Elder and Pedanius Dioscorides, and various magic formulae, amongst others the famous abracadabra, as a cure for fever and ague. It concludes with a description of the famous antidote of Mithridates VI of Pontus.

It was much used in the Middle Ages, and is of value for the ancient history of popular medicine. The syntax and metre are remarkably correct. According to the unreliable Augustan History[8] he was a famous physician and polymath, who was put to death with other friends of Geta in December 212, at a banquet to which he had been invited by Caracalla shortly after the assassination of his brother.[9]

The first printed edition of De medicina praecepta was edited by Giovanni Sulpizio da Veroli, before 1484.[10]


See also



References


  1. Vollmer, Friedrich, Quinti Sereni Liber Medicinalis Leipzig, Teubner, 1916; Kai Brodersen, Quintus Serenus, Medizinischer Rat (Liber medicinalis), Latin/German, Berlin and Boston 2016. ISBN 978-3-11-052712-4
  2. For the antiquarianism, see R. Marache, La critique littéraire de langue latine et le développement du goût archaïsant au IIe siècle de notre ère (1951).
  3. Edward Champlin, "Serenus Sammonicus" Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 85 (1981:189-212) p. 193.
  4. "vir saeculo suo doctus". quoted by Edward Champlin 1981, p. 189.
  5. Arnobius repeats the derivation of the placename Capitolium from an ancient tomb there of one Olus Vulcentanus, of whom the head was recovered, as Caput Oli (noted by Champlin 1981:193, who remarks, p. 194, "One other characteristic distinguishes Serenus Sammonicus: he is exceptionally silly.").
  6. Champlin 1981:289.
  7. A son, to whom he bequeathed his library, who then gave it to Gordian II, has been demonstrated to be one of many imaginary creations of the Augustan History by Ronald Syme, Emperors and Biography: Studies in the Historia Augusta. (Oxford, 1971:10, 184).
  8. "A source which immediately engenders caution in the reader," as Champlin remarks.
  9. Champlin 1981:289.
  10. Further editions include that by Johann Christian Gottlieb Ackermann (Leipzig, 1786), and E. Behrens, in Poetae Latini minores, iii.

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На других языках

- [en] Serenus Sammonicus

[es] Sereno Sammónico

Quintus Serenus Sammonicus (... -212) fue un erudito romano y tutor de Geta. Fue también autor de un poema didáctico médico titulado De medicina præcepta[nota 1] y del que no se conocen versiones completas.

[fr] Quintus Serenus Sammonicus

Quintus Serenus Sammonicus est un érudit romain ayant vécu à la fin du IIe et au début du IIIe siècle de notre ère, auteur d'un poème didactique médical en latin intitulé généralement De medicina præcepta et dont les versions connues sont probablement incomplètes.

[ru] Серен Саммоник

Квинт Сере́н Саммони́к (лат. Quintus Serenus Sammonicus, убит в декабре 211 или в 212) — древнеримский врач, писатель и учёный-антиквар эпохи Северов. Обладатель величайшей частной библиотеки в античности.


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