Caelius Aurelianus was a Roman physician and writer on medical topics. A physician of Sicca in Numidia, who probably flourished in the 5th century AD, although some place him two or even three centuries earlier. Ancient Rome was a civilization that existed in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East between 753 BC and its downfall in AD 476. ... Numidia was an ancient African Berber kingdom and later a Roman province on the northern coast of Africa between the province of Africa (where Tunisia is now) and the province of Mauretania (which is now the western part of Algerias coastal area). ... (4th century - 5th century - 6th century _ other centuries) Events Rome sacked by Visigoths in 410. ...

He is widely considered the second only to Galen. He is best known for his translation from Greek to Latin of a work by Soranus, On Acute and Chronic Diseases. Claudius Galenus of Pergamum (131-201 AD), better known as Galen, was an ancient Greek physician. ... Soranus was a Sabine god later adopted by the Roman Empire. ...

In favour of the later date is the nature of his Latin, which shows a strong tendency to the Romance, and the similarity of his language to that of Cassius Felix, also an African medical writer, who about 450 wrote a short treatise, chiefly based on Galen. Latin was the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... Claudius Galenus of Pergamum (131-201 AD), better known as Galen, was an ancient Greek physician. ...

We possess a translation by Aurelianus of two works of Soranus of Ephesus (2nd century), the chief of the "methodist" school of medicine, on chronic and acute maladies--Tardae or Chronicae Passiones, in five, and Celeres or Acutae Passiones in three books. The translation, which is especially valuable since the original has been lost, shows that Soranus possessed considerable practical skill in the diagnosis of ordinary and even of exceptional diseases. It is also important as containing numerous references to the methods of earlier medical authorities.

We also possess considerable fragments of his Medicinales Responsiones, also adapted from Soranus, a general treatise on medicine in the form of question and answer; it deals with rules of health (salutaria praecepta) and the pathology of internal diseases (ed. Rose, Anecdota Graeca et Latina, ii., 1870). Where it is possible to compare Aurelianus's translation with the original--as in a fragment of his Gynaecia with Soranus's Hepl ymscuKeicov lIaO&--it is found that it is literal, but abridged. There is apparently no manuscript of the treatises in existence.

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