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ATTALIA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Athenaeus (Athenaios), a celebrated physician, who was the founder of the sect
of the Pneumatici. He was born in Cilicia, at Attaleia, according to Galen, or
at Tarsus according to Caelius Aurelianus. The exact years of his birth and death
are unknown, but as Agathinus was one of his followers, he must have lived in
the first century after Christ. He was tutor to Theodorus (Diog. Laert. ii. 104),
and appears to have practised at Rome with great success. Some account of his
doctrines and those of the Pneumatici is given in the Dict. of Ant. s. v. Pneumatici,
but of his personal history no further particulars are known. He appears to have
been a voluminous writer, as the twenty-fourth volume of one of his works is quoted
by Galen (De Caus. Symptom. ii. 3.), and the twenty-ninth by Oribasius (Coll.
Medic. ix. 5.). Nothing, however, remains but the titles, and some fragments preserved
by Oribasius.
There is in the Royal Library at Paris a Greek MS. of the sixteenth
century, containing a treatise on Urine, Peri Ouron Sunopsis Akribes, by a person
of the name of Athenaeus, but it is not known for certain whether he is the same
individual as the founder of the Pneumatici.
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Oct 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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