Syennesis ( Ancient Greek: Συέννεσις) of Cyprus was a physician, who must have lived in or before the fourth century BCE, as he is mentioned by Aristotle, who quotes from his writings a passage on the origin of the veins. [1] This fragment also forms part of the treatise De Ossium Natura in the Hippocratic Corpus, [2] which is in fact composed entirely of passages taken from different ancient writers.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain:
Greenhill, William Alexander (1870).
"Syennesis". In
Smith, William (ed.).
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 3. p. 949.
Syennesis ( Ancient Greek: Συέννεσις) of Cyprus was a physician, who must have lived in or before the fourth century BCE, as he is mentioned by Aristotle, who quotes from his writings a passage on the origin of the veins. [1] This fragment also forms part of the treatise De Ossium Natura in the Hippocratic Corpus, [2] which is in fact composed entirely of passages taken from different ancient writers.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain:
Greenhill, William Alexander (1870).
"Syennesis". In
Smith, William (ed.).
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 3. p. 949.