Ura'nius
(
*Ou)ra/nios), a Syrian physician at Constantinople about the middle of the sixth century after Christ.
He pretended to be a very subtle and acute philosopher, and went to Persia, where he obtained great favour and influence with Chosroes; but Agathias, from whom we learn these particulars, gives him a very indifferent character, and compares him to Thersites, for his love of wrangling. (
Hist., ii. sub fin.)
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