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world, court-physician and confidant to the emperor Julian, to 
whom he dedicated the seventy books of his Collectanea * (of per- 
haps 362 A. D.), and on whom he was in attendance when Julian 
met his death in battle, 363 A. D. Oribasius in his long friend- 
ship for Julian and for the sophist, Eunapius, linked together the 
three master-spirits whose end marked the passing of paganism. 
Oribasius’ description of Aster Atticus is an adoption of that 
of Dioscorides, under the name of ‘“ Aster Atticus or Bubonion,” 
and is valuable chiefly as throwing light on the true text of that 
most important description. The name Budonion, for example, 
was stricken out from the received text of Dioscorides by Sara- 
cenus in 1598, as part.of a later interpolation ; on what good 
ground does not appear, as the name Bubonion was cited for the 
plant by Pliny and was doubtless current long before Dioscorides 
wrote, its form indicating a long period of ' established medical re- 
pute to occasion the development of the name,—‘‘ the Groin-plant,” 
as it has been rendered. We note that Oribasius had been also 
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on or before April, 361 (now lost). (2) Collectanea, or Collecta Medicinalia, oF 
Hebdomecontabiblos (the seventy books), his Zvvaywyai , 'larpikai, a compen of 
medical writings of antiquity, in 70 books written eides ie auspices of Julian, 361-363 
A.D. (3) His Synopsis, or aay , books aap from the preceding at the desire 
of his son Eustathius ; about 393 A. D.; printed only in Rasarius’ Latin translation. 
(4) His Syntomie or Euporista or De facile Parabilibus, in 4 books, forming a“ Family 
Physician,”’ dedicated to Eunapius, his intimate friend ; printed only in Rasarius’ Latia 
translation. 
* Of this great encyclopaedia of medical knowledge, the Collectanea, more than 
half is lost and the remainder in some uncertainty ; books I.-X, XIV, XV, 4 nd a frag: 
ment of book XVI were published in the original Greek se in French translation by 
Bussemaker and Daremberg, Paris, 2 vols., 1851, 1854; books 46, 47, and fragments of 
books 48 and 49 were published in Greek aaa Latin ea a Florentine MS. by © 3 
Florence, 17545 and fragments from books 44 to 50, by Cardinal Mai, from  Vatieat 
S., Rome, 1831, Books XI., XII., XIII., being a transcript of Dioscorides, WERE 
vray omitted from the Paris editio ‘ 
The standard Latin translation of Cibalen published at Basle, 1557, 4° made 
at Venice aa before by Rasarius from two MSS., one that of the Venetian patrician : 
Matthaeus Dandolo, the other that of one Nicolaus Seettntgheliiony a ~— Narr 
mensis’’ ; it includes 30 books, the a. the viedo and books I-XV, XXIV 
and XXV, of the Collectanea, One of its MSS e later, says os er, 7: Pe 
oscow, where Mathaei printed a it the Geek ee of books I.- xy. with the Latin be 
translation, 1808, but without textual comparisons. . ° 
‘The earliest published portion of Oribasius was that printed by Schott in 1533 
Strasburg, by title ‘* Oribasii eee ses megiaeenng he Libri quingne,”’ ' which co 
also of portions from Apulei jreek phy 
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