Antonius Musa

Antonius Musa

Antonius Musa (Ancient Greek: Ἀντώνιος Μούσας, Antṓnios Moúsas) was a Greek botanist and the Roman Emperor Augustus's physician; Antonius was a freedman who received freeborn status along with other honours. In the year 23 BC, when Augustus was seriously ill, Musa cured the illness with cold compresses and became immediately famous. Musa, the plant group which includes the banana, the plantain and numerous other species, was apparently named after him. However, Musa may be a Latinization of the Arabic name for the fruit, mauz (موز). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Antonius Musa is the 553rd most popular physician (down from 547th in 2019). (up from 3,649th in 2019)