Serenus Sammonicus

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

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.

  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