Aemilia
Flourished late 3rd–early 4th century C.E., Gaul
Aemilia Hilaria, aunt of the poet and rhetorician Ausonius (circa 310–395), was a physician who lived near the Moselle River in Gaul (now known as modern day France). According to her nephew, who wrote a series of poems on family members entitled Parentalia, Aemilia was a “dedicated virgin,” rejecting marriage as a hindrance to a career, and “occupied herself in the art of healing, like a man.”
