Chap. 109.] SUMMAEY. 387 



that medical men employ — is much the same in weight as the 

 silver denarius, and is equivalent to six oboli, the obolus being 

 ten chalci ; the cyathus is equal in weight to ten drachmae. 

 When the measure of an acetabulum is spoken of, it is the 

 same as one fourth part of a heraina, or fifteen drachmae in 

 weight. The Greek mna, or, as we more generally call it, 

 ** mina," equals one hundred Attic drachmae in weight, 



SuMMABY. — Eemedies, narratives, and observations, seven 

 hundred and thirty. 



KoMAN AUTHOKs QUOTED. — Cato the Censor,^^ M. Yarro,^^ An- 

 tias,*' Caepio,*^ Vestinus,^^ Vibius Eufus,^^ Hyginus,^^ Pompo- 

 nius Mela," Pompeius Lenaeus,^^ Cornelius Celsus,^' Calpurnius 

 Bassus,^^ C. Valgius,^^ Licinius Macer,^^ Sextius jN'iger °® who 

 wrote in Greek, Julius Bassus ^^ who wrote in Greek, Antonius 

 Castor.^'^ 



FoEEiGN AUTHORS QUOTED. — Theophrastus,"^ Democritus,^- 

 Orpheus, ^^ Pythagoras," Mago,^ Menander^® who wrote the 

 Biochresta, Meander,®'' Homer, Hesiod,®^ Musaeus,®^ Sophocles,''' 

 Anaxilaiis."'^ 



*5 See end of B. iii. ^^ gee end of B. ii. ^' See end of B. ii. 



*^ A writer on flowers and chaplets, in the time of Tiberius. Nothing 

 whatever beyond this seems to be known of him. 



*^ C. Julius Atticus V^estinus, or, according to some authorities, M. At- 

 ticus Yestinus. He was consul a.d. 65 ; and, though innocent, was put 

 to death by Nero's order, for alleged participation in the conspiracy of Fiso. 



6^ An alleged disciple of Orpheus, and probably as fabulous a personage. 

 Many works, now lost, passed under his name. 



''" One of the most celebrated of the Greek tragic writers -, born e.g. 49.5- 

 Of his 127 tragedies, only seven have come down to us. 



''^ A Pythagorean philosopher, a native of one of the cities called Lu- 



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