A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

(Παῦλος Αἰγινήτης), a celebrated Greek medical writer, of whose personal history nothing is known except that he was a good deal, visiting, among other places, Alexandria (4.49, p. 526). He is sometimes called Ἰατροσοφιστής (see Dict. of Ant. s. v.) and Περιοδευτής, a word which probably means a physician who travelled from place to place in the exercise of his profession. The exact time when he lived is not known; but, as he quotes Alexander Trallianus (3.28, 78, pp. 447, 495, 7.5, 11, 19, pp. 650, 660, 687), and is himself quoted by Yahya Ibn Serábí or Serapion (Pract. 7.9, pp. 73, 74, ed. Lugd. 1525), it is probable that Abúl-Faraj is correct in placing him in the latter half of the seventh century after Christ. (Hist. Dynast. p. 114.)

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