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In his time, Galen's reputation as both physician and philosopher was legendary, the Emperor Marcus Aurelius describing him as " Primum sane medicorum esse, philosophorum autem solum " ( first among doctors and unique among philosophers Praen 14: 660 ).

Other contemporary authors in the Greek world confirm this including Theodotus the Shoemaker, Athenaeus and Alexander of Aphrodisias.

The 7th-century poet George of Pisida went so far as to refer to Christ as a second and neglected Galen.

Galen continued to exert an important influence over the theory and practice of medicine until the mid-17th century in the Byzantine and Arabic worlds and Europe.

Hippocrates and Galen form important landmarks of 600 years of Greek medicine.

A. J. Brock describes them as representing the foundation and apex respectively.

A few centuries after Galen Palladius Iatrosophista in his commentary on Hippocrates, stated that Hippocrates sowed and Galen reaped.