Serenus

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

Sĕrēnus, i, m.; Sĕrēna, ae, f. [1. serenus], a proper name.

I Q. Serenus Sammonicus, a physician under Septimius Severus , Spart. Get. 5, 5; Macr. 3, 16, 6.—

II Q. Serenus Sammonicus, son of the preceding , author of a poem , De Medicina, still extant , Lampr. Alex. 30, 2; cf. Teuffel's Roem. Lit. 379, 4.—

III Serena, the wife of Stilicho , and mother-in-law of the emperor Honorius , celebrated by Claudian in a special poem (Laus Serenae Reginae).

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