Textual and prosopographic notes on Plin., Nat. XXIX 7-8 .
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Textual criticism, Latin literature, Roman historyAbstract
Thanks to a new reading of the text, the passage from Pliny the Elder (Nat. XXIX 7-8) confirms some data about the physician of the emperor Claudius Stertinius Xenophon which so far has been only object of conjectures.
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