Politianus served partasGreek Patriarch of Alexandria between 768 and 813. According toEutychius, Politianus was a physician by training, visitedBaghdad and healedHārūn al-Rašīd's concubine. He reportedly participated in the translation ofVindonius Anatolius of Berytus' "Collection of Agricultural Practices" fromGreek intoArabic forYahya ibn Khalid in 795 CE.[1]
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