Apollonius Glaucus (Greek: Ἀπολλώνιος Γλαῦκος) was a

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and

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who must have lived during or before the 2nd century CE, as his work ''On Internal Diseases'' is quoted by

Caelius Aurelianus Caelius Aurelianus of Sicca in Numidia was a Greco-Roman physician and writer on medical topics. He is best known for his translation from Greek to Latin of a work by Soranus of Ephesus, ''On Acute and Chronic Diseases''. He probably flourished ...

. Nothing more is known of his

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. He wrote, for instance, on the significance of the types of excreted worms.

Name

The name

Glaucus In Greek mythology, Glaucus (; ) was a Greek prophetic sea-god, born mortal and turned immortal upon eating a magical herb. It was believed that he came to the rescue of sailors and fishermen in storms, having earlier earned a living from the ...

comes from

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, including one sea-god.

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