Soranus

Sōrānus, a, um, v. Sora.

Soranus, i, m.,

• an epithet of Dis, acc. to Serv. Verg. A. 11, 785.

1. Sōrānus, a, um, s. Sōra.

2. Sōrānus, ī, m. (v. σωρός, Haufe, Menge, in gleicher Bed. wie Dis u. Πλούτων), ein Beiname des Pluto als des geheimen Schutzgottes von Rom, Serv. Verg. Aen. 11, 785.

3. Sōrānus, ī, m., vollst. Servilius Barea Soranus, cos. suff. 52 n. Chr. unter Klaudius, gleichzeitig mit Thrasea angeklagt u. zum Tode getrieben, Tac. ann. 16, 32. Schol. Iuven, 1. 33: bl. Barea, Iuven. 3, 116: Plur. Sorani, Männer wie Soranus, Boëth. cons. phil. 1, 3. p. 6, 18 Obb.

1 Sōrānus, (14) a, um, v. Sora.

2 Sōrānus, (12) ī, m. , ¶ 1 surnom de Pluton (Dis pater): Serv. En. 11, 785 ¶ 2 Barea Soranus Tac. Ann. 12, 53 ; 16, 21, mis à mort sous Néron.

Sorānus

A Sabine deity worshipped on Mount Soracté, and in later times identified with Apollo (Verg. Aen. vii. 785-790; Pliny , Pliny H. N. vii. 19).

Sorānus

A Greek physician from Ephesus, who lived in the first half of the second century A.D., under Trajan and Hadrian. His writings are now represented by a work of considerable extent on the diseases of women, and a surgical treatise on fractures. The writings of Caelius Aurelianus (q.v.) on acute and chronic diseases are translated from him. See Scheele, De Sorano Medico (1884).

Sorānus

Barea. A Roman of great integrity, consul suffectus in A.D. 52. He was accused of treason under Nero, and his daughter Servilia was charged with magic. Both were put to death, the chief witness against Soranus being his former teacher P. Egnatius Celer (Tac. Ann. xvi. 30; Juv. iii. 16).