AETIUS, a Greek physician, born at Amida in Mesopotamia, flourished at the beginning of the 6th century A.D. He was court physician at Byzantium. He wrote a large medical work in 16 books, founded on Oribasius and compiled from various sources. especially Galen (Galenos). Eight books of the Greek original were printed in Venice in 1534, and a complete Latin translation by Cornarius at Basel, 1542.
See Weigel, Aetianarum exercitationum specimen (1791) ; Danelius, Beitrag zur Augenheilkunde des Aetius (1889) ; Zernos, Aetii sermo sextidecimus et ultimus, editio princeps (19o1).