Ablabius

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Ablabius (Greek Αβλάβιος) was the name of several different people in the ancient world. It also may be the name by which those known as Ablavius were sometimes called.

Ablabius was a physician on whose death there is an epigram by Theosebia in the Greek Anthology, [1] in which he is considered as inferior only to Hippocrates and Galen. With respect to his date, it is only known that he must have lived after Galen, that is, some time later than the second century A.D.[2]

Ablabius the Illustrious (Ιλλούστριος) was the author of an epigram in the Greek Anthology, "on the quoit of Asclepiades."[3] Nothing more is known of him, unless he is the same person as Ablabius, the Novatian bishop of Nicaea, who was a disciple of the rhetorician Troilus, and himself eminent in the same profession, and who lived under Honorius and Theodosius, at the end of the fourth and the beginning of the fifth centuries A.D. [4][5] This Ablabius was also the recipient of Gregory of Nyssa's famous epistle Why there are not three Gods.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Greek Anthology, Book vii. 559
  2. ^ Greenhill, William Alexander (1867), “Ablabius (1)”, in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, pp. 3 
  3. ^ Greek Anthology, Book ix. 762
  4. ^ Socrates of Constantinople, Historia Ecclesiastica vii. 12
  5. ^ Smith, Philip (1867), “Ablabius (2)”, in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, pp. 3 


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