Arruntius was a
physician of
ancient Rome who lived probably about the beginning or middle of the first century CE, and is mentioned by
Pliny the Elder as having gained by his practice the annual income of 250,000
sestertii
The ''sestertius'' (plural ''sestertii''), or sesterce (plural sesterces), was an ancient Roman coin. During the Roman Republic it was a small, silver coin issued only on rare occasions. During the Roman Empire it was a large brass coin.
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[ Pliny the Elder, '' Natural History'' 29.5)] This may give us some notion of the fortunes made by physicians at Rome about the beginning of the empire.
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1st-century Roman physicians
Arruntii