” He received his first
instruction
disputing, lecturing, writing, and practising, that
from his father, and in his fifteenth year, A.
from his father, and in his fifteenth year, A.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b
D.
39, where he carried on a
was the author of an historical work which Sueto successful war against the Germans, and restored
tonius calls multiplex nec incuriosa historia. The discipline among the troops. The Germans had
nature of this work is unknown. (Suet. Galb. 3. ) invaded Gaul, but after severe losses they were
12. C. SULPICIUS Galba, a son of No. ll, and compelled by Galba to return to their own country.
father of the emperor Galba. He was consul in On the death of Caligula many of his friends urged
A. D. 22, with D. Haterius Agrippa. He was him on to take possession of the imperial throne,
humpbacked, and an orator of moderate power. but he preferred living in a private station, and
He was married to Mummia Achaica, a great Claudius, the successor of Caligula, felt so grateful
granddaughter Mummius, the destroyer of Co to him for this moderation, that he received him
rinth. After her death he married Livia Ocellina, into his suite, and showed him very great kindness
a wealthy and beautiful woman. By his former and attention. In A. D. 45 and 46, Galba was en-
wife he had two sons, Caius and Servius. The trusted with the administration of the province of
former of them is said by Suetonius (Galb. 3) to Africa, which was at the time disturbed by the
have made away with himself, because Tiberius licentiousness of the Roman soldiers and by the
would not allow him to enter on his proconsulship; incursions of the neighbouring barbarians. He
but as it is not known that he ever was consul, it restored peace, and managed the affairs of the pro-
is more probable that Suetonius is mistaken, and vince with great strictness and care, and on his
that what he relates of the son Caius applies to his return he was honoured with the ornamenta tri-
father, C. Sulpicius Galba, who, according to umphalia, and with the dignity of three priesthoods ;
Tacitus (An. vi. 40), put an end to himself in he became a member of the college of the Quin-
A. D. 36.
[L. S. ) decimviri, of the sodales Titii, and of the Augustales.
To which of the preceding P. Galbae the follow- In the reign of Nero he lived for several years in
ing coin belongs is doubtful. It has on the obverse private retirement, for fear of becoming, like many
a female head, and on the reverse a culter, a sim- others, the victim of the tyrant's suspicion, until, in
puvium, and a secespita, with P. GALB. AED. B. C. 61, Nero gave him Hispania Tarraconensis as
his province, where he remained for a period of
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eight years In maintaining discipline among | T. Vinius, Cornelius Laco, and Icelus ; and the
his troops, his strictness at first bordered upon arbitrary manner in which he acted under their
cruelty, for the severest punishments were inflicted influence showed that the times were little better
for slight offences, but during the latter period of than they had been under Nero. His unpopularity
his administration he became indolent, for fear, it with all classes daily increased, and more espe-
is said, of attracting the attention of Nero, but cially among the soldiers. The first open outbreak
more probably as a natural consequence of old of discontent was among the legions of Germany,
age.
In a. D. 68, when the insurrection of C. which sent word to the Praetorians at Rome, that
Julius Vindex broke out in Gaul, and Vindex they disliked the emperor created in Spain, and
called upon the most distinguished men in the that one should be elected who was approved of by
other provinces to join bim, he also sent messen- all the legions. Similar outbreaks occurred in
gers to Galba, whom he looked upon as the most Africa. Galba, apparently blind to the real cause
eminent among the generals of the time, and whom of the discontent, and attributing it to his old age
he had destined in his mind as the successor of and his having no heir, adopted Piso Licinianus, a
Nero. Vindex accordingly exhorted him to vindi- noble young Roman, who was to be his coadjutor
cate the rights of oppressed humanity. Galba, who and successor. But even this act only increased
was at the same time informed that some officers in his unpopularity ; for he presented his adopted son
Spain had received secret orders from Nero to to the senate and the soldiers, without giving to the
murder him, resolved at once to take the perilous latter the donatives customary on such occasions.
step, and place himself at the head of the Roman Salvius Otho, who had hoped to be adopted by
world, although he was already upwards of seventy Galba, and had been strongly recommended by
years old. He assembled his troops, excited their T. Vinius, now secretly formed a conspiracy
sympathy for those who had been murdered by among the troops. The insurrection broke out six
Nero, and was at once proclaimed imperator by the days after the adoption of Piso Licinianus. Galba
soldiers. He himself, however, at first professed at first despaired, and did not know what to do,
to act only as the legate of the Roman senate and but at last he took courage, and went out to meet
people. He began to organise his army in Spain, the rebels ; but as he was carried across the forum
instituted a kind of senate which was to act as his in a sedan-chair, a troop of horsemen, who had been
council, and made all preparations for a war against waiting for his arrival, rushed forward and cut him
Nero. Some of his soldiers, however, soon began down, near the Lacus Curtius, where his body was
to repent, and as he was engaged in suppressing left, until a common soldier, who passed by, cut off
this spirit among his own men, he received the in- his head, and carried it to Otho, who had in the
telligence of the fall of Vindex, who in despair had mean time been proclaimed emperor by the prae-
put an end to himself. Being thus deprived of his torians and legions. His remains were afterwards
principal supporter, Galba withdrew to Clunia, a buried by one Argius in his own garden. A statue
small town of his province, and was on the point of his, which the senate erected on the spot where
of following the example Vindex. But things he had been murdered, was afterwards destroyed
suddenly took a different turn. Nymphidius Sa- by Vespasian, who believed that Galba had sent
binus, praefect of the praetorians at Rome, created assassins into Judaea to murder him. (Tac. Hist.
an insurrection there, and some of the friends of i. , 1–42; Dion Cass. lxiv. 1–6; Suet. Galba;
Galba, by making munificent promises in his name, Plut. Galba; Aurel. Vict. De Caes. 6; Eutrop.
succeeded in winning the troops for him. Nero was vii, 10 ; Niebuhr, Lect. on the Hist. of Rome, vol
murdered. Galba now took the title of Caesar, ii. p. 226, ed. L. Schmitz. )
(L. S. ]
and, accompanied by Salvius Otho, the governor of
Lusitania, he went to Rome, where ambassadors
soon arrived from all parts of the empire to do
homage to Galba as the lawful sovereign.
SPOR
Galba by this time seems to have lost the good
qualities that distinguished his earlier years : a re-
port of his severity
and avarice had preceded him
to Rome ; and it soon became manifest that the
accounts of his avarice were not exaggerated. In-
COIN of GALBA. The reverse represents a Co-
stead of doing all he could to win the favour of the
soldiers, who had only just become aware of the rona Civica, and is therefore accompanied with the
fact that they had it in their power to dispose of inscription
OB C so, that is, ob cives servatos.
the sovereignty, and that they might depose him
GALE'NE (raltim), a personification of the
just as they had raised him, he made several calm sea, and perhaps identical with Galateia, one
unpopular changes in the army at Rome, and of the Nereides, is called by Hesiod (Theog. 244)
punished with severity those who opposed his mea-
a daughter of Nereus and Doris. (L. S. )
sures. The large donatives which his friends had
GALE'NUS, CLAU'DIUS (Klaudis rann
promised in his name were not given, and various rós), commonly called Galen, a very celebrated
rumours about his niggardly and miserly character physician, whose works have had a longer and
more extensive influence on the different branches
were sedulously spread at Rome, and increased
the discontent. Some of his arrangements were
of medical science than those of any other indi-
wise enough; and had he not been the victim of vidual either in ancient or modern times.
avarice, the common foible of old age, and been
able to part with some of his treasures, he might
I. PERSONAL HISTORY OF. GALEN.
have maintained himself on the throne, and the Little is told us of the personal history of Galen
Roman world would probably not have had much by any ancient author, but this deficiency is abun-
reason to complain. In addition to this, he was dantly supplied by his own writings, in which are
completely under the sway of three favourites, to be found such numerous anecdotes of himself and
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GALENUS.
1
1
his contemporaries as to form altogether a tolerably | 21. vol. xviii. pt. 2. p. 567, &c. ; De Compou.
circumstantial account of his life. He was a native Medic. sec. Gen. iii. 2. vol. xiii. p. 574. )
of Pergamus in Mysia (Gal. De Simpl. Medic. In his thirty-fourth year, A. D. 163-4, Galen
Temper. ac Facult. x. 2. § 9. vol. xii. p. 272), and quitted his native country on account of some
it can be proved from various passages in his popular commotions, and went to Rome for the
works that he was born about the autumn of A. D. first time. (De Libris Propr. c. i. vol. xix. p. 15. )
130. His father's name was Nicon (Suid. s. v. Here he stayed about four years, and gained such
rannvós), who was, as Suidas tells us, an architect reputation from his skill in anatomy and medicine
and geometrician, and whom Galen praises several that he got acquainted with some of the principal
times, not only for his knowledge of astronomy, persons at Rome, and was to have been recon-
grammar, arithmetic, and various other branches mended to the emperor, but that he declined that
of philosophy, but also for his patience, justice, be honour. (De Praenot. ad Epig. c. 8. rol. xiv. p.
nevolence, and other virtues. (De Digos. et Cur. 647. ) It was during his first visit to Rome that
An. Morb. c. 8. vol. v. p. 41, &c. ; De Prob. et Prav. he wrote his work De Hippocratis et Platonis De-
Alim. Succ. c. i. vol. vi. p. 755, &c. ; De Ord. Libr. cretis, the first edition of his work De Anatomicis
suor, vol. xix. p. 59. ) His mother, on the other Administrationibus, and some of his other treat-
hand, was a passionate and scolding woman, who ises (De Anat. Admin. i. 1. vol. ii. p. 215);
would sometimes even bite her maids, and used to and excited so much envy and ill-will among the
quarrel with her husband “ more than Xantippe physicians there by his constant and successful
with Socrates.
” He received his first instruction disputing, lecturing, writing, and practising, that
from his father, and in his fifteenth year, A. D. he was actually afraid of being poisoned by them.
144-5, began to learn logic and to study philo (De Praenot. ad Epig. c. 4. vol. xiv. p. 623, &c. )
sophy under a pupil of Philopator the Stoic, under A full account of his first visit to Rome", and of
Caius the Platonist, (or, more probably, one of his some of his most remarkable cures, is given in the
pupils,) under a pupil of Aspasius the Peripatetic, early chapters of his work De Praenotione ud Epi-
and also under an Epicurean. (De Dignos. et Cur. genem, where he mentions that he was at last called,
An. Morb. c. 8. vol. v. p. 41. ) In his seventeenth not only tapadofológus, " the wonder-speaker, "
year, A. D. 146–7, his father, who had hitherto but also tapadoforotós, “the wonder-worker. "
destined him to be a philosopher, altered his in- | (c. 8. p. 641. ) It is often stated that Galen fied
tentions, and, in consequence of a dream, chose for from Rome in order to avoid the danger of a very
him the profession of Medicine. (De Meth. Med. severe pestilence, which had first broken out in the
ix. 4. vol. x. p. 609; Comment. in Hippocr. “ De parts about Antioch, A. D. 166, and, after ravaging
Humor. " i. 2. vol. xvi. p. 223; De Ord. Libr. suor. various parts of the empire, at last reached the
vol. xix. p. 59. ) No expense was spared in his capital (see Greswell's Dissertations, &c. , vol. iv.
education, and the names of several of his medical p. 552); but he does not appear to be justly open
tutors have been preserved. His first tutors were to this charge, which the whole of his life and
probably Aeschrion (De Simpl. Medic. Temper. ac character would incline us to disbelieve. He had
Facult. xi. 1. § 34. vol. xii
. p. 356), Satyrus been for some time wishing to leave Rome as soon
(Comment. in Hippocr. “ Praedict. I. " i. 5. vol. as the tumults at Pergamus should be at an end
xvi. p. 524 ; De Ord. Libr. suor. vol. xix. p. 57), (De Praenot. ad Epig. c. 4. vol. xiv. p. 622), and
and Stratonicus, in his own country (De Atra Bile, evaded the proposed introduction to the emperor M.
c. 4. vol. v. p. 119). In his twentieth year, A. D. Aurelius for fear lest his return to Asia should be
149-50, he lost his father (De Prob. et Prav. thereby hindered (ibid. pp. 647, 648). This reso-
Alim. Succ. c. I. vol. vi. p. 756), and it was pro- lution may have been somewhat hastened by the
bably about the same time that he went to Smyrna breaking out of the pestilence at Rome, A. D. 167
for the purpose
studying under Pelops the phy-|(De Libr. Propr. c. 1. vol. xix. p. 15), and accordingly
sician, and Albinus the Platonic philosopher, as he left the city privately, and set sail at Brundu-
he says he was still a youth (uespákuov). (De sium. (De Praenot. ad Epig. c. 9. vol. xiv. p.
Anat. Admin. i. 1. vol. ii. p. 217; De Libris Propr. 648. ) He reached his native country in his thirty-
c. ii. vol. xix. p. 16. ) He also went to Corinth to eighth year, a. D. 167–8 (De Libr. Propr. c. 2.
attend the lectures of Numesianus (De Anat. Ad- vol. xix. p. 16), and resumed his ordinary course
min. I. c. ), and to Alexandria for those of Heracli- of life ; but had scarcely done so, when there ar-
anus (Comment, in Hippocr. “ De Nat. Hom," rived a summons from the emperors M. Aurelius
6. vol. xvi. 136. ); and studied under Aelianus and L. Verus to attend them at Aquileia in Ven
Meccius (De Ther. ad Pamph. vol. xiv. p. 298-9), netia, the chief bulwark of Italy on its north-east-
and Iphicianus (Comment. in Hippocr. * De Hu- ern frontier, whither they had both gone in person
mor. " iii. 34. vol
. xvi. p. 484, where the name is to make preparations for the war with the northern
corruptly called on klavós). It was perhaps at this tribes (De Libr. Propr. 1. c. p. 17, 18; De Prae-
time that he visited various other countries, of not. ad Epig. c. 9. vol. xiv. p. 649, 650), and
which mention is made in his works, as e. g. Ci- where they intended to pass the winter. He
licia, Phoenicia, Palestine, Scytos, Crete (Com- travelled through Thrace and Macedonia perform-
ment. in Hippocr. “ De Victu Acut. ” iii. 8.
was the author of an historical work which Sueto successful war against the Germans, and restored
tonius calls multiplex nec incuriosa historia. The discipline among the troops. The Germans had
nature of this work is unknown. (Suet. Galb. 3. ) invaded Gaul, but after severe losses they were
12. C. SULPICIUS Galba, a son of No. ll, and compelled by Galba to return to their own country.
father of the emperor Galba. He was consul in On the death of Caligula many of his friends urged
A. D. 22, with D. Haterius Agrippa. He was him on to take possession of the imperial throne,
humpbacked, and an orator of moderate power. but he preferred living in a private station, and
He was married to Mummia Achaica, a great Claudius, the successor of Caligula, felt so grateful
granddaughter Mummius, the destroyer of Co to him for this moderation, that he received him
rinth. After her death he married Livia Ocellina, into his suite, and showed him very great kindness
a wealthy and beautiful woman. By his former and attention. In A. D. 45 and 46, Galba was en-
wife he had two sons, Caius and Servius. The trusted with the administration of the province of
former of them is said by Suetonius (Galb. 3) to Africa, which was at the time disturbed by the
have made away with himself, because Tiberius licentiousness of the Roman soldiers and by the
would not allow him to enter on his proconsulship; incursions of the neighbouring barbarians. He
but as it is not known that he ever was consul, it restored peace, and managed the affairs of the pro-
is more probable that Suetonius is mistaken, and vince with great strictness and care, and on his
that what he relates of the son Caius applies to his return he was honoured with the ornamenta tri-
father, C. Sulpicius Galba, who, according to umphalia, and with the dignity of three priesthoods ;
Tacitus (An. vi. 40), put an end to himself in he became a member of the college of the Quin-
A. D. 36.
[L. S. ) decimviri, of the sodales Titii, and of the Augustales.
To which of the preceding P. Galbae the follow- In the reign of Nero he lived for several years in
ing coin belongs is doubtful. It has on the obverse private retirement, for fear of becoming, like many
a female head, and on the reverse a culter, a sim- others, the victim of the tyrant's suspicion, until, in
puvium, and a secespita, with P. GALB. AED. B. C. 61, Nero gave him Hispania Tarraconensis as
his province, where he remained for a period of
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1
а
GALENUS.
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eight years In maintaining discipline among | T. Vinius, Cornelius Laco, and Icelus ; and the
his troops, his strictness at first bordered upon arbitrary manner in which he acted under their
cruelty, for the severest punishments were inflicted influence showed that the times were little better
for slight offences, but during the latter period of than they had been under Nero. His unpopularity
his administration he became indolent, for fear, it with all classes daily increased, and more espe-
is said, of attracting the attention of Nero, but cially among the soldiers. The first open outbreak
more probably as a natural consequence of old of discontent was among the legions of Germany,
age.
In a. D. 68, when the insurrection of C. which sent word to the Praetorians at Rome, that
Julius Vindex broke out in Gaul, and Vindex they disliked the emperor created in Spain, and
called upon the most distinguished men in the that one should be elected who was approved of by
other provinces to join bim, he also sent messen- all the legions. Similar outbreaks occurred in
gers to Galba, whom he looked upon as the most Africa. Galba, apparently blind to the real cause
eminent among the generals of the time, and whom of the discontent, and attributing it to his old age
he had destined in his mind as the successor of and his having no heir, adopted Piso Licinianus, a
Nero. Vindex accordingly exhorted him to vindi- noble young Roman, who was to be his coadjutor
cate the rights of oppressed humanity. Galba, who and successor. But even this act only increased
was at the same time informed that some officers in his unpopularity ; for he presented his adopted son
Spain had received secret orders from Nero to to the senate and the soldiers, without giving to the
murder him, resolved at once to take the perilous latter the donatives customary on such occasions.
step, and place himself at the head of the Roman Salvius Otho, who had hoped to be adopted by
world, although he was already upwards of seventy Galba, and had been strongly recommended by
years old. He assembled his troops, excited their T. Vinius, now secretly formed a conspiracy
sympathy for those who had been murdered by among the troops. The insurrection broke out six
Nero, and was at once proclaimed imperator by the days after the adoption of Piso Licinianus. Galba
soldiers. He himself, however, at first professed at first despaired, and did not know what to do,
to act only as the legate of the Roman senate and but at last he took courage, and went out to meet
people. He began to organise his army in Spain, the rebels ; but as he was carried across the forum
instituted a kind of senate which was to act as his in a sedan-chair, a troop of horsemen, who had been
council, and made all preparations for a war against waiting for his arrival, rushed forward and cut him
Nero. Some of his soldiers, however, soon began down, near the Lacus Curtius, where his body was
to repent, and as he was engaged in suppressing left, until a common soldier, who passed by, cut off
this spirit among his own men, he received the in- his head, and carried it to Otho, who had in the
telligence of the fall of Vindex, who in despair had mean time been proclaimed emperor by the prae-
put an end to himself. Being thus deprived of his torians and legions. His remains were afterwards
principal supporter, Galba withdrew to Clunia, a buried by one Argius in his own garden. A statue
small town of his province, and was on the point of his, which the senate erected on the spot where
of following the example Vindex. But things he had been murdered, was afterwards destroyed
suddenly took a different turn. Nymphidius Sa- by Vespasian, who believed that Galba had sent
binus, praefect of the praetorians at Rome, created assassins into Judaea to murder him. (Tac. Hist.
an insurrection there, and some of the friends of i. , 1–42; Dion Cass. lxiv. 1–6; Suet. Galba;
Galba, by making munificent promises in his name, Plut. Galba; Aurel. Vict. De Caes. 6; Eutrop.
succeeded in winning the troops for him. Nero was vii, 10 ; Niebuhr, Lect. on the Hist. of Rome, vol
murdered. Galba now took the title of Caesar, ii. p. 226, ed. L. Schmitz. )
(L. S. ]
and, accompanied by Salvius Otho, the governor of
Lusitania, he went to Rome, where ambassadors
soon arrived from all parts of the empire to do
homage to Galba as the lawful sovereign.
SPOR
Galba by this time seems to have lost the good
qualities that distinguished his earlier years : a re-
port of his severity
and avarice had preceded him
to Rome ; and it soon became manifest that the
accounts of his avarice were not exaggerated. In-
COIN of GALBA. The reverse represents a Co-
stead of doing all he could to win the favour of the
soldiers, who had only just become aware of the rona Civica, and is therefore accompanied with the
fact that they had it in their power to dispose of inscription
OB C so, that is, ob cives servatos.
the sovereignty, and that they might depose him
GALE'NE (raltim), a personification of the
just as they had raised him, he made several calm sea, and perhaps identical with Galateia, one
unpopular changes in the army at Rome, and of the Nereides, is called by Hesiod (Theog. 244)
punished with severity those who opposed his mea-
a daughter of Nereus and Doris. (L. S. )
sures. The large donatives which his friends had
GALE'NUS, CLAU'DIUS (Klaudis rann
promised in his name were not given, and various rós), commonly called Galen, a very celebrated
rumours about his niggardly and miserly character physician, whose works have had a longer and
more extensive influence on the different branches
were sedulously spread at Rome, and increased
the discontent. Some of his arrangements were
of medical science than those of any other indi-
wise enough; and had he not been the victim of vidual either in ancient or modern times.
avarice, the common foible of old age, and been
able to part with some of his treasures, he might
I. PERSONAL HISTORY OF. GALEN.
have maintained himself on the throne, and the Little is told us of the personal history of Galen
Roman world would probably not have had much by any ancient author, but this deficiency is abun-
reason to complain. In addition to this, he was dantly supplied by his own writings, in which are
completely under the sway of three favourites, to be found such numerous anecdotes of himself and
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GALENUS.
1
1
his contemporaries as to form altogether a tolerably | 21. vol. xviii. pt. 2. p. 567, &c. ; De Compou.
circumstantial account of his life. He was a native Medic. sec. Gen. iii. 2. vol. xiii. p. 574. )
of Pergamus in Mysia (Gal. De Simpl. Medic. In his thirty-fourth year, A. D. 163-4, Galen
Temper. ac Facult. x. 2. § 9. vol. xii. p. 272), and quitted his native country on account of some
it can be proved from various passages in his popular commotions, and went to Rome for the
works that he was born about the autumn of A. D. first time. (De Libris Propr. c. i. vol. xix. p. 15. )
130. His father's name was Nicon (Suid. s. v. Here he stayed about four years, and gained such
rannvós), who was, as Suidas tells us, an architect reputation from his skill in anatomy and medicine
and geometrician, and whom Galen praises several that he got acquainted with some of the principal
times, not only for his knowledge of astronomy, persons at Rome, and was to have been recon-
grammar, arithmetic, and various other branches mended to the emperor, but that he declined that
of philosophy, but also for his patience, justice, be honour. (De Praenot. ad Epig. c. 8. rol. xiv. p.
nevolence, and other virtues. (De Digos. et Cur. 647. ) It was during his first visit to Rome that
An. Morb. c. 8. vol. v. p. 41, &c. ; De Prob. et Prav. he wrote his work De Hippocratis et Platonis De-
Alim. Succ. c. i. vol. vi. p. 755, &c. ; De Ord. Libr. cretis, the first edition of his work De Anatomicis
suor, vol. xix. p. 59. ) His mother, on the other Administrationibus, and some of his other treat-
hand, was a passionate and scolding woman, who ises (De Anat. Admin. i. 1. vol. ii. p. 215);
would sometimes even bite her maids, and used to and excited so much envy and ill-will among the
quarrel with her husband “ more than Xantippe physicians there by his constant and successful
with Socrates.
” He received his first instruction disputing, lecturing, writing, and practising, that
from his father, and in his fifteenth year, A. D. he was actually afraid of being poisoned by them.
144-5, began to learn logic and to study philo (De Praenot. ad Epig. c. 4. vol. xiv. p. 623, &c. )
sophy under a pupil of Philopator the Stoic, under A full account of his first visit to Rome", and of
Caius the Platonist, (or, more probably, one of his some of his most remarkable cures, is given in the
pupils,) under a pupil of Aspasius the Peripatetic, early chapters of his work De Praenotione ud Epi-
and also under an Epicurean. (De Dignos. et Cur. genem, where he mentions that he was at last called,
An. Morb. c. 8. vol. v. p. 41. ) In his seventeenth not only tapadofológus, " the wonder-speaker, "
year, A. D. 146–7, his father, who had hitherto but also tapadoforotós, “the wonder-worker. "
destined him to be a philosopher, altered his in- | (c. 8. p. 641. ) It is often stated that Galen fied
tentions, and, in consequence of a dream, chose for from Rome in order to avoid the danger of a very
him the profession of Medicine. (De Meth. Med. severe pestilence, which had first broken out in the
ix. 4. vol. x. p. 609; Comment. in Hippocr. “ De parts about Antioch, A. D. 166, and, after ravaging
Humor. " i. 2. vol. xvi. p. 223; De Ord. Libr. suor. various parts of the empire, at last reached the
vol. xix. p. 59. ) No expense was spared in his capital (see Greswell's Dissertations, &c. , vol. iv.
education, and the names of several of his medical p. 552); but he does not appear to be justly open
tutors have been preserved. His first tutors were to this charge, which the whole of his life and
probably Aeschrion (De Simpl. Medic. Temper. ac character would incline us to disbelieve. He had
Facult. xi. 1. § 34. vol. xii
. p. 356), Satyrus been for some time wishing to leave Rome as soon
(Comment. in Hippocr. “ Praedict. I. " i. 5. vol. as the tumults at Pergamus should be at an end
xvi. p. 524 ; De Ord. Libr. suor. vol. xix. p. 57), (De Praenot. ad Epig. c. 4. vol. xiv. p. 622), and
and Stratonicus, in his own country (De Atra Bile, evaded the proposed introduction to the emperor M.
c. 4. vol. v. p. 119). In his twentieth year, A. D. Aurelius for fear lest his return to Asia should be
149-50, he lost his father (De Prob. et Prav. thereby hindered (ibid. pp. 647, 648). This reso-
Alim. Succ. c. I. vol. vi. p. 756), and it was pro- lution may have been somewhat hastened by the
bably about the same time that he went to Smyrna breaking out of the pestilence at Rome, A. D. 167
for the purpose
studying under Pelops the phy-|(De Libr. Propr. c. 1. vol. xix. p. 15), and accordingly
sician, and Albinus the Platonic philosopher, as he left the city privately, and set sail at Brundu-
he says he was still a youth (uespákuov). (De sium. (De Praenot. ad Epig. c. 9. vol. xiv. p.
Anat. Admin. i. 1. vol. ii. p. 217; De Libris Propr. 648. ) He reached his native country in his thirty-
c. ii. vol. xix. p. 16. ) He also went to Corinth to eighth year, a. D. 167–8 (De Libr. Propr. c. 2.
attend the lectures of Numesianus (De Anat. Ad- vol. xix. p. 16), and resumed his ordinary course
min. I. c. ), and to Alexandria for those of Heracli- of life ; but had scarcely done so, when there ar-
anus (Comment, in Hippocr. “ De Nat. Hom," rived a summons from the emperors M. Aurelius
6. vol. xvi. 136. ); and studied under Aelianus and L. Verus to attend them at Aquileia in Ven
Meccius (De Ther. ad Pamph. vol. xiv. p. 298-9), netia, the chief bulwark of Italy on its north-east-
and Iphicianus (Comment. in Hippocr. * De Hu- ern frontier, whither they had both gone in person
mor. " iii. 34. vol
. xvi. p. 484, where the name is to make preparations for the war with the northern
corruptly called on klavós). It was perhaps at this tribes (De Libr. Propr. 1. c. p. 17, 18; De Prae-
time that he visited various other countries, of not. ad Epig. c. 9. vol. xiv. p. 649, 650), and
which mention is made in his works, as e. g. Ci- where they intended to pass the winter. He
licia, Phoenicia, Palestine, Scytos, Crete (Com- travelled through Thrace and Macedonia perform-
ment. in Hippocr. “ De Victu Acut. ” iii. 8.
