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DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20335421
Aëtius of Amida
Ἀέτιος ὁ Ἀμιδηνός

Aëtius of Amida and the Sixteen Books of Medicine

14 works

Aëtius of Amida, sixth century CE, from Amida in the eastern Roman empire, is named as a court ἱατρός to Justinian in Constantinople.

What this site holds is his Greek Ἰατρικά, also called the Τετράβιβλος, a compilation in sixteen books. Titles already on this page include Medical Book I through Medical Book IX, then XI–XIII, XV, and Medical Book XVI. Books X and XIV are not listed here.

The books quote earlier Greek. A Hippocratic or Hellenistic passage in this collection is that earlier Greek, in a later compiler’s mouth.

What survives here is Aëtius’s arrangement of those quotations, not the autographs of the writers he excerpts.

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