Crinas
a physician of Marseilles who practised at Rome in the reign of Nero, A. D. 54-68, and introduced astrology into his medical practice. He acquired a large fortune, and is said by Pliny (Plin. Nat. 29.5) to have left at his death to his native city the immense sum of ten million sesterces (centies H. S.) or about 78,125l., after having spent nearly the same sum during his life in building the walls of the city.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.