Euphorbus (physician)

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 honour.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Dale, Nancy (1986). Kitz, Jo; Hardie-Scott, Linda (eds.). Flowering Plants: The Santa Monica Mountains, Coastal and Chaparral Regions of Southern California (First ed.). Capra Press. p. 107. ISBN 978-0884962397.
  2. ↑ Linnaeus, Carl (1753). Species Plantarum. p. 450.
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