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    Actuarius or actarius, rendered in Greek as aktouarios (ἀκτουάριος), was the title applied to officials of varying functions in the late Roman and Byzantine...
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  • given the title of Actuarius, a dignity frequently conferred at that court upon physicians. Very little is known of the events of Actuarius' life, and his...
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    Plutarch, Galen, Oribasius, Aetius (Aëtius of Amida or Sicamus Aëtius), Actuarius, Nonnus, Psellus, Leo, Myrepsus; Arabic: Scrapion, Avenzoar, Albucasis...
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    and physical symptoms of aging. Theophilus Protospatharius and Joannes Actuarius also discussed the topic in their medical works. Byzantine physicians...
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  • of the early Roman Republic, made up of the poorest men of the army. Actuarius – A soldier charged with distributing pay and provisions. Adiutor – A...
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    multicultural the city was. For example, on a ceiling tile of Heliodoros, an actuarius (an official responsible for the distribution of wages in the Roman military)...
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  • for the gout and sciatica is mentioned by Paul of Aegina and Joannes Actuarius. Galen, De Meth. Med. 1. 7, vol. x. 52, Introd. c. 4, vol. xiv. 684. Caelius...
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  • was held in great esteem by the emperor, and attained the dignity of actuarius. All this agrees very well with the scattered notices of his date and...
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  • CE Italian Professor of medicine at the University of Padua. Joannes Actuarius Man Middle Ages 13th-14th century CE Byzantine Wrote the last great compendium...
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    large number of works into Latin, such as the last two volumes of Joannes Actuarius' De Methodo Medendi, which he published under the title De Medicamentorum...
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    introduced the matula, a round flask used to examine urine; and Joannes Actuarius, who wrote a series of books on uroscopy in seven volumes. The 1491 book...
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  • Aretaeus of Cappadocia, Paul of Aegina, Oribasius, Aëtius of Amida, Joannes Actuarius, Marcellus Empiricus, Alexander of Tralles, Nicolaus Myrepsus, and Avicenna...
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  • Mondeville 1284 – Mansur hospital of Cairo c. 1275 – c. 1328 Joannes Zacharias Actuarius a Byzantine physician wrote the last great compendium of Byzantine medicine...
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  • drawn up for Trimalchio in Petronius's Satyricon (Satyricon, 53) by his actuarius, a slave to whom the duty was specially assigned. Other commentarii were...
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    grades. But that they were substantial is shown by the example that an actuarius (quartermaster) of a comitatus regiment was paid 50% more than his counterpart...
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    the Head. A treatise on Urine written by him is alluded to by Joannes Actuarius, and he himself mentions a work of his on Diseases of the Eyes, which...
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    Marcellus the Emperic; Greek: Aretaeus, Plutarch, Galen, Oribasius, Aetius, Actuarius, Nonnus, Psellus, Leo, Myrepsus; Arabic: Scrapion, Avenzoar, Albucasis...
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    1851 Memmiini Cachan, 1952 Memmia Stål, 1865 Menidini Atkinson, 1888 Actuarius (bug) Distant, 1901 Aegaleus (bug) Stål, 1876 Amphimachus (bug) Stål,...
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    - sein Sohn Käthe Burga as Pirzel - Kellnerin Max Gülstorff as Just - Actuarius Frida Richard as Julchen - seine Frau Annemarie Mörike as Minchen - seine...
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    as well as Paul of Aegina. The last great Byzantine physician was John Actuarius, who lived in the early 14th Century in Constantinople. His works on urine...
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  • university cities. They included: Abiectarius (Carpenter, e.g. “Schreiner”) Actuarius (scribe professions, e.g. “Schreiber”) Agricola (Farmer, e.g. “Bauer”)...
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    articles (mainly at the beginning of the alphabet), including those for actuarius and Aretaeus. This work was immediately translated into French (as Dictionnaire...
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  • Acindynus (Carrhae) Acritic songs Acropolitissa, wife of Michael of Trebizond Actuarius Adada, Pisidia Adalgis Adaloald Adamantius (praefectus urbi) Adarnase...
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  • List of shipwrecks: 31 March 1854 Ship State Description Actuarius  United Kingdom The brig was wrecked between the mouths of the Elbe and Weser with...
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