[The doctor and the consul. Relations between Galen and Flavius Boethos under Marcus Aurelius].

The author describes the rich relationship between young Galen, just arrived in Rome from his native Minor Asia, and Flavius Boethos a consul suffectus who was to become the governor of Syria, and asked him to cure his wife and then their son, Cyrillos. Although very famous, Galen who never became a Roman citizen, needed such a friend and social mentor.