Eumelus
Εὔμηλος
(Εὔμηλος), a veterinary surgeon, of whom nothing is known except that he was a native of Thebes. (Hippiatr. p. 12.) He may perhaps have lived in the fourth or fifth century after Christ.
Works
Fragments on Veterinary Surgery
Some fragments. which are all that remain of his writings.
Editions
These are to be found in the Collection of Writers on Veterinary Surgery, first published in Latin by J. Ruellius, Paris. 1530, fol., and in Greek by S. Grynaeus, Basil. 1537, 4to.
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.