Reference edition:
Corpus medicorum latinorum VI 1. Caelii Aureliani Celerum passionum libri III. Tardarum passionum libri V, edidit Gerhard Bendz, Pars I, Berolini in aedibus Academiae Scientiarum, 1990; Corpus medicorum latinorum VI 1. Caelii Aureliani Tardarum passionum libri III-V, edidit Gerhard Bendz, Pars II, editio altera lucis ope expressa, Berolini in aedibus Academiae Scientiarum, 2002
Caelius Aurelianus, a Roman physician from Africaproconsularis, active between the fourth century and the beginning of the fifth century, is the author of the Tardae passions, a Latin version of the section dealing with chronic diseases of the treatise Περὶ ὀξέων καὶ χρονίων παθῶν by Soranus of Ephesus, an authoritative Greek doctor of the second century AD. Caelius’ translation contains therapeutic considerations relating to more than forty diseases, which the Latin writer distributes into five books. The Tardae passiones, as is also the case for the Celeres passiones, represent an important doxographic source for the study of the Greek and Latin medical tradition of the time before Soranus. [D. Paniagua; tr. L. Battezzato]