Ablabius

(Ἀβλάβιος).

1. A physician on whose death there is an epigram by Theosebia in the Greek Anthology (7.559), in which he is considered as inferior only to Hippocrates and Galen. With respect to his date, it is only known that he must have lived after Galen, that is, some time later than the second century after Christ. [W.A.G]

2. The illustrious (Ἰλλούστριος), the author of an epigram in the Greek Anthology (9.762) " on the quoit of Asclepiades." Nothing more is known of him, unless he be the same person as Ablabius, the Novatian bishop of Nicaea, who was a disciple of the rhetorician Troilus, and himself eminent in the same profession, and who lived under Honorius and Theodosius II., at the end of the fourth and the beginning of the fifth centuries after Christ. (Socrates, Hist. Eccl. 7.12.) [P.S]