AURELIUS CORNELIUS, a celebrated physician of the first century, who wrote eight books on medicine, in elegant Latin. He was the Hippocrates of the Latins; and Quintilian gives him a high eulogium. The great Boerhaave tells us, that Celsus is one of the best authors of antiquity for letting us into the true meaning and opinions of Hippocrates; and that without him, the writings of this father in physic would be often unintelligible, often misunderstood by us. He shows us also how the ancients cured distempers by friction, bathing, &c. His eight books de Medicina have been several times printed. The Elzevir edition, in the year 1650, by Vander Linden, is the best, as being entirely corrected from his manuscripts.

Epicurean philosopher, in the second century. He wrote a work against the Christians, entitled, The True Discourse: to which Origen, at the desire of Ambrose his friend, wrote a learned answer. To this philosopher Lucian dedicated his Pseudomanius.