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Hygēa or Hygīa (Hygĭeia), ae, f., = Ὑγεία, daughter of Æsculapius, and goddess of health, Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 80; 35, 11, 40, § 137; Mart. 11, 60, 6; Inscr. Orell. 440; 1576 sq.

Hygīnus (Higinus, Gell. 1, 14, 1; 1, 21, 2; 5, 8, 1 et saep.), i, m., surname of two Roman authors.

  1. I. C. Julius Hyginus, author of a collection of fables and of a treatise on astronomy, Suet. Gramm. 20; Gell. 1, 14.
  2. II. The author of a treatise De limitibus constituendis.