Claudius Agathemerus ( Gr. ) was an ancient Greek physician who lived in the 1st century. He was born in the Lacedaemon, and was a pupil of the philosopher Cornutus, in whose house he became acquainted with the poet

Persius Aulus Persius Flaccus (; 4 December 3424 November 62 AD) was a Ancient Rome, Roman poet and satirist of Etruscan civilization, Etruscan origin. In his works, poems and satires, he shows a Stoicism, Stoic wisdom and a strong criticism for what he ...

about 50 AD. In the old editions of

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he is called ''Agaternus'', a mistake which was first corrected by Reinesius, from the epitaph upon him and his wife, Myrtale, which is preserved in the ''Marmora Oxoniensia'' and the ''

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.'' The apparent anomaly of a Roman

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being given to a Greek may be accounted for by the fact which we learn from Suetonius, that the

Sparta Sparta ( Doric Greek: Σπάρτα, ''Spártā''; Attic Greek: Σπάρτη, ''Spártē'') was a prominent city-state in Laconia, in ancient Greece. In antiquity, the city-state was known as Lacedaemon (, ), while the name Sparta referre ...

ns were the hereditary clients of the

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