fl. c. 90–60 BCE · physician
Apollonius of Citium
Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ Κιτιεύς
Known · AttestedA source places them at the Library or under royal patronage.
In Alexandria: c. 90–80 BCE
A physician trained in Alexandria who dedicated his commentary on the Hippocratic On Joints to a King Ptolemy. The illustrations of its Byzantine manuscript go back to his figures of how to set a joint.
Our device: Their emblem is a splint. No portrait of any of these people survives. The emblems are our devices.
On the shelves
- Apollonius of Citium, Commentary on Hippocrates' On Joints · c. 80–60 BCE · Survives whole
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Sources (2)
- Apollonius of Citium, Commentary on Hippocrates' On Joints preface
- V. Nutton, Ancient Medicine, 2nd ed. (London: Routledge, 2013)