Chap. 109.] SUMMABY, 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 hemina, or fifteen drachma in 

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

 11 mina," equals one hundred Attic drachmae in weight. 



SUMMARY. Remedies, narratives, and observations, seven 

 hundred and thirty. 



ROMAN AUTHOKS QUOTED. Cato the Censor, 45 M. Yarro, 46 An- 

 tias, 47 CaBpio, 48 Vestinus, 49 Vibius Rufus, 50 Hyginus, 51 Pompo- 

 nius Mela, 52 Pompeius Lenseus, 53 Cornelius Celsus, M Calpurnius 

 Eassus, 65 C. Valgius, 56 Licinius Macer, 57 Sextius Niger 58 who 

 wrote in Greek, Julius Bassus 59 who wrote in Greek, Antonius 

 Castor. 60 



FOREIGN AUTHORS QUOTED. Theophrastus, 61 Democritus, 62 

 Orpheus, 63 Pythagoras, 64 Mago, 65 Menander 66 who wrote the 

 Biochresta, Meander, 67 Homer, Hesiod, 68 Musaeus, 69 Sophocles, 70 

 Anaxilaiis. 71 



45 See end of B. iii. 46 See end of B. ii. 4 ? See end of B. ii. 



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

 whatever beyond this seems to be known of him. 



49 C. Julius Attieus Vestinus, or, according to some authorities, M. At- 

 ticus Vestiuus. He was consul A.D. 65 ; and, though innocent, was put 

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



50 See end of B. xiv. 61 See end of B. iii. 

 52 See end of B. iii. 53 See end of B. xiv. 

 54 See end of B. vii. 55 See end of B. xvi. 



66 See end of B. xx. 57 See end of B. xix. 



58 See end of B. xii. 59 See end of B. xx. ' 



60 See end of B. xx. See also B. xxv. c. 5. 



61 See end of B. iii. 62 See end of B. ii. 

 es See end of B. xx. G4 See end of B. ii. 

 63 See end of B. viii. 66 See end of B. xix. 



67 See end of B. viii. 68 See end of B.'vii. 



6tf 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 B.C. 495. 

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



71 A Pythagorean philosopher, a native of one of the cities called La- 



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