Euphorbus_(physician)

Euphorbus (physician)

Euphorbus (physician)

Greek physician to Mauretanian king Juba II (reigned 30 BC – AD 23)

Euphorbus (Ancient Greek: Εὔφορβος Euphorbos) was the Greek physician of Juba II (r. 30 BC – 25 BC). He wrote that a succulent plant, similar to the Euphorbia, was a powerful laxative.[1] In 12 BC, Juba named this plant after his physician Euphorbus in response to Augustus dedicating a statue to Antonius Musa, Augustus's own personal physician and Euphorbus' brother.[1]

Botanist and taxonomist Carl Linnaeus assigned the name Euphorbia to the entire genus in the physician's honor.[2]

References

  1. [1]
    Flowering Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains, p. 107, 1985, CNPS
  2. [2]
    Carl Linnaeus, Species Plantarum (1753): p. 450
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