Africa'nus
(
Ἀφρικανός), a writer on veterinary surgery, whose date is not certainly known, but who may very probably be the same person as Sex. Julius Africanus.
Works
Sex. Julius Africanus' work entitled
Κεστοί contained information upon medical subjects. [AFRICANUS, SEX. JULIUS.]
Editions
His remains were published in the Collection of writers on Veterinary Medicine, first in a Latin translation by J. Ruellius, Par. 1530, fol., and
afterwards in Greek, Bas. 1537, 4to. edited by Grynaeus. [
W.A.G]