 It was thought that none of his work survived until 1907 when a manuscript of excerpts of his work "De venenatis animalibus eorumque remediis" (On poisonous animals and their remedies) was discovered in the Vatican library (codex Vaticanus gr.284) by the German scholar Wellmann, who published an edition in 1908.Numerous fragments are preserved by Aëtius Amidenus.