INTRODUCTION. ~ 65 
I cannot refrain from making one more quotation. 
After stating that Diamargariton is so expensive a 
icine that the rich only can afford to take it, he 
proceeds : 
Quid faciet Codrus? Quid Codri curta suppellex ? 
Cujus plebe vacuus farragine venter 
Non satis impletur, spasmum patiente crumena, 
Cujus opes modicis depicta sophismata cartis. 
An quia res angusta domi, quia parca facultas, 
Et tenuis Sumptus, nequit hos attingere luxus ? 
Et vetat in vetitum motus erumpere mentis, 
Nuda salus sine subsidio prostrata jacebit ? 
An quia deficiunt species, et aromata desunt, 
t tua, Codre, salus, dejecta fatiscit 
Corporis integritas, quia te presentia Mauri 
Splendida non recreat multo spectabilis auro ? 
Absit ut insidias nature sobria ponat 
Mundaque paupertas, qu, certis obsita metis, 
Non querit sibi prescriptos transcendere fines ! 
Paupertas Medicina sibi tribus empta minutis, 
Quam faba Pythagore, lardo condita pusillo, 
Et rude nutrit olus, cui de farragine pani: 
Furfured factus, avidoque in ventre receptus, 
Radit, et elimat grossos de corpore chymos—(yupovs).- 
Se membris magis assimulat, se firmids illis 
Tnserit esca, famis avido condita sapore. 
Que via curandi morbos, que causa fidelis 
