The Epitome of the Corpus Hippiatricorum Graecorum is in effect the only complete treatise on equine medicine in Greek that we have. The exact date when it was produced remains uncertain, but a scrutiny of the subjects represented in it and of the novel additions (mainly concerning treatment) to what is transmitted by the Corpus makes us think that its author must have been a practising and well-versed vet, a practitioner that was responsible for a careful selection from the bulk of texts left by his predecessors and thus produced a manageable synthesis of procedures and advice underpinned by his own experience.