Six Books on the Art of Gymnastics (1587) - Page 18


Diogenes Laertius original: "Laertius." Author of the Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers.	Posidonius A Stoic philosopher and polymath.
Pomponius Laetus original: "Laitus." A Renaissance humanist scholar.	Propertius
Aelius Lampridius original: "Lampridius." One of the authors of the Augustan History.	Publius Victor original: "Pub. Victor." Likely referring to a cataloger of Roman regions.
Libanius	Rhazes original: "Razes." The Latinized name of the influential Persian physician Abu Bakr al-Razi.
Lucan original: "Lucanus."	Rufus of Ephesus original: "Rufus Ephesius." A noted physician of the 1st century AD.
Lucian original: "Lucianus."	Scribonius Largus A court physician to the Roman Emperor Claudius.
Lucilius	Seneca
Lucretius	Sextus Empiricus original: "Sex. Empiricus." A skeptic philosopher and physician.
Marcus Aurelius Cassiodorus	Sextus Pompeius Festus original: "Sex. Pompeius Festus." A Roman grammarian.
Marcus Tullius Referring to Cicero.	Sidonius Apollinaris
Martial original: "Martialis."	Soranus of Ephesus original: "Soranus Ephesius." A physician renowned for his work on gynecology and pediatrics.
Meletius Likely Meletius the Monk, a medical writer.	Aelius Spartianus original: "Spartianus." One of the Augustan History biographers.
Oribasius	Statius. Strabo
Ovid original: "Ouidius."	Suetonius Tranquillus
Pacuvius original: "Pacuuius."	The Suda original: "Suidas." A massive 10th-century Byzantine encyclopedia of the Mediterranean world.
Saint Paul original: "D. Paullus." The 'D.' abbreviation represents 'Divus' or Saint.	Terence original: "Terentius."
Paul of Aegina original: "Paullus Aegineta." A 7th-century Byzantine medical encyclopedist.	Tertullian original: "Tertullianus."
Pausanias	Themison Themison of Laodicea, founder of the Methodic school of medicine.
Persius	Theodorus Priscianus
Petronius Arbiter	Theophrastus
Philostratus Mercuriale relied heavily on Philostratus's Gymnasticus.	Valerius Flaccus
Plato	Valerius Maximus original: "Valerius Max."
Plautus	Varro
Pliny original: "Plinius." Likely referring to Pliny the Elder.	Vegetius Author of a famous treatise on Roman military matters and veterinary medicine.
Plutarch original: "Plutarchus."	Vitruvius original: "Vitruuius." The famous Roman architect and engineer.
Polybius	Vopiscus Flavius Vopiscus, another biographer from the Augustan History.
Porphyry original: "Porphyrius."	Xenophon

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Vocabulary: Diogenes Laertius, Seneca, Plato, Pliny, Plutarch, Xenophon, Scribonius Largus, Suetonius, names of classical authors.