Syennesis of Cyprus
Syennesis (Ancient Greek: Συέννεσις) of Cyprus was a physician, who must have lived in or before the fourth century BCE, as he is mentioned by Aristotle, who quotes from his writings a passage on the origin of the veins.[1] This fragment also forms part of the treatise De Ossium Natura in the Hippocratic Corpus,[2] which is in fact composed entirely of passages taken from different ancient writers.
Notes
- ^ Aristotle, History of Animals iii. 2. § 3
- ^ Hippocratic Corpus vol. i. p. 507
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Greenhill, William Alexander (1870). "Syennesis". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 3. p. 949.