Claudius Agathemerus

Claudius Agathemerus (Ancient Greek: Κλαύδιος Ἀγαθήμερος) 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 about 50 AD.

[1] In the old editions of Suetonius he is called Agaternus, a mistake which was first corrected by Reinesius,[2] from the epitaph upon him and his wife, Myrtale, which is preserved in the Marmora Oxoniensia and the Greek Anthology.

[3] The apparent anomaly of a Roman praenomen being given to a Greek may be accounted for by the fact which we learn from Suetonius,[4] that the Spartans were the hereditary clients of the gens Claudia.

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.