Magnus
4. A native of Tarsus in Cilicia, who must have lived in or before the beginning of the second century after Christ, as one of his medical formulae is quoted by Asclepiades Pharmacion. (Galen, De Compos. Medicam. sec. Locos, 9.7, vol. xiii. p. 313.)
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.