Domnus

[Domninus.]

(Δόμνος).

1. Domnus is mentioned in the Commentary on the Aphorisms of Hippocrates that are incorrectly attributed to Oribasius (p. 8, ed. Basil. 1535), as having written a commentary on this work. He was probably quite a late author, perhaps living in the fifth or sixth century after Christ; but it is uncertain whether he was the same person as either of the following physicians of the same name.

2. A Jewish physician, the tutor to Gesius, in the fourth century after Christ, by whom his own reputation was eclipsed, and his pupils enticed away. (Suid. s. v. Γέσιος.)

3. A heathen physician at Constantinople, in the fourth century after Christ, of whose death, in the time of the plague, an account is given by St. Ephraem Syrus. (Opera, vol. i. p. 91, ed. Rom. 1589, fol.) [W.A.G]