Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Uranius 3.

URA'NIUS (Οὐράνιος), a Syrian physician at Constantinople about the middle of the sixth century after Christ. He pretended to be a very subtle and acute philosopher, and went to Persia, where he obtained great favour and influence with Chosroës; but Agathias, from whom we learn these particulars, gives him a very indifferent character, and compares him to Thersites, for his love of wrangling. (Hist, ii. sub fin.) [W. A. G.]