Marcellus Sidetes
a native of Side in Pamphylia, was born towards the end of the first century after Christ, and lived in the reigns of Hadrian and Antoninus Pius, A. D. 117-161.
Works
He wrote a long medical poem in Greek hexameter verse, consisting of forty-two books, which was held in such estimation, that it was ordered by the emperors to be placed in the public libraries at Rome. (Suid. s. v. Μάρκελλος, and Kuster's note; Eudoc. Violar. apud Villoison, Anecd. Graeca, vol. i. p. 299.) Of this work only two fragments remain.
Περὶ Λυκανθρώπου, De Lycanthropia
The first fragment Περὶ Λυκανθρώπου, De Lycanthropia is preserved (but in prose) by Aetius (2.2, 11, p. 254; compare Paul. Aegin. 3.16, and Mr. Adams's note, vol. i. p. 390), and is curious and interesting.
Ἰατρικὰ περὶ Ἰχθύων, De Remedis ex Piscibus.
The second fragment, Ἰατρικὰ περὶ Ἰχθύων, De Remedis ex Piscibus, is less interesting, and consists of about 100 verses.
Editions
It was first published in a separate form in Greek and Latin by Fred. Morell, Paris, 8vo. 1.591, and is to be found in the first volume of Fabricius, Bibl. Gr. ed. vet., and elsewhere.
Further Information
See Choulant, Handb. der Böcherkunde für die Aettere Medicim.
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.