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Hippasius

Ἱππάσιος

(Ἱππάσιος), a veterinary surgeon, who may perhaps have lived in the fourth or fifth century after Christ.

Works

Fragments on Veterinary Surgery

He wrote some works, of which only a few fragments remain.

Editions

The fragments are to be found in the collection of writers on veterinary surgery, first published in a Latin version by Joannes Ruellius, Paris, 1530, fol., and afterwards in the original Greek, by Simon Grynaeus, Basel, 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.