1) A
divinity of the
Sabini, identified with
Apollo, worshipped on Mt.
Soracte.
Virgil writes of his followers walking bare-footed through
fire.
2) A physician of the "Methodist" school. Born in Ephesus, he went to Alexandria and then to Rome, where he practised medicine during the reigns of the Emperors Trajan and Hadrian. He wrote textbooks, most famously on gynaecology, some of which are still extant.