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This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Antonella Ippolito and first published on 29/06/2005.

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Eutecnius is known as the author of a prose paraphrase of Nicander of Colophon’s¹ Ἀλεξιφάρμακα² and Θηριακὰ³ that is contained in the codex Vindob. med. gr. 1⁴, the famous witness of Dioscurides⁵ dated to ca. 512 CE. The paraphrases are in th…