368 PLINY'S NATTJHAL HISTORY. [Book XXVIII. 



who wrote in Greek> Bithus 30 of Dyrrhachium, Opilius 31 the 

 physician, Granius 32 the physician. 



FOREIGN AUTHORS QUOTED. Dernocritus, 33 Apollonius 34 who 

 wrote the " Myrosis," Miletus, 35 Artemon, 36 Sextilius, 37 An- 

 taeus, 38 Homer, Theophrastus, 39 Lysimachus, 40 Attalus, 41 Xeno- 

 crates, 42 Orpheus 43 who wrote the "Idiophya," Archelaiis 44 

 who wrote a similar work, Demetrius, 45 Sotira, 48 Lais, 47 Ele- 



30 From the mention made of him in Chap. 23, he was probably a 

 physician. Nothing further is known of him. 



31 Aurelius Opilius, the freedman of an Epicurean. He taught philosophy, 

 rhetoric, and grammar at Rome, but finally withdrew to Smyrna. One of 

 his works, mentioned by A. Gellius, was entitled " Musse," and the name 

 of another was " JPinax." 



32 From the mention made of his profound speculations in Chap. 9, 

 Fabricius has reckoned him among the medical writers of Rome. It has 

 also been suggested that he may have been the Granius Flaccus mentioned 

 by Censorinus as the author of the " Indigitamenta," or Register of the 

 Pontiffs. 33 gee end of B. ii. 



34 Probably Apollonius Mus, or Myronides, a physician who flourished 

 in the first century B.C., who is mostly identified with Apollonius Hero- 

 pbileius. His " Myrosis " here mentioned is probably the work " On 

 Unguents " mentione'd by Athenseus, B. xv. 



35 Nothing whatever is known of him. It has been suggested that the 

 name may have been " Melitus." A contemporary of Socrates, an orator 

 and tragic writer, was so named. 



56 Beyond the mention of him in c. 2 of this Book, nothing is known 

 relative to this medical writer : no great loss, perhaps, if we may judge from 

 the extract there given. 



37 Though mentioned among the foreign writers, the name is evidently 

 Roman. Nothing relative to him is known. 



38 See end of B. xii. 39 See end of B. iii. 



40 Probably the writer mentioned at the end of B. viii. 



41 See end* of B. viii. 42 See end of B. xx. 



43 See end of B. xx. The " Idiophya " was probably a work " On the 

 Peculiar Animals," which passed as the composition of the mythic Or.pheus. 



44 A Greek post, said to have been born at Chersonesus, a town in Egypt. 

 Some of his Epigrams are still extant in the Anthology, and it has been 

 suggested that he flourished either in the time of Ptolemy Soter, of Ptolemy 

 Euergetes II., or of Ptolemy Philadelphus. His work " On Peculiar 

 Animals," here mentioned, was probably written in "verse. 



45 See end of B. viii. 



46 A female writer on medical subjects. In addition to her work men- 

 tioned in Chap. 23 of this Book, Labbe speaks of a work of hers in MS. 

 " On Menstruation," preserved in the Library at Florence. 



47 The female who is mentioned in Chap. 23 of this Book as having 

 written on Abortion, or the Diseases peculiar to Females, was probably a 



