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AĂ«tius Amidenus



Aëtius Amidenus or Aëtius of Amida (Αέτιος Αμιδηνός) was the court physician of Justinian I. He wrote a medical encyclopedia called either Sixteen Medical Books or Tetrabibloi (Βιβλία Ιατρικά) which documents the medical knowledge of the Late Antique period, drawing on previous medical authors, including Galen and the encyclopedia of Oribasius.



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