420 PLINY'S NATURAL HISTORY. [Book XXIX. 



lius 35 the physician, Metellus Scipio, 36 the Poet Ovid, 37 Lici- 

 nius Macer. 38 



FOREIGN AUTHORS QUOTED. Homer, Aristotle, 39 Orpheus, 40 

 Palsephatus, 41 Democritus, 43 Anaxilaiis. 43 



MEDICAL AUTHORS QUOTED. Botrys, 44 Apollodorus, 45 Archi- 

 demus, 46 Aristogenes, 47 Xenocrates, 48 Democrates, 49 Diodorus, 50 

 Chrysippus 51 the philosopher, Horus, 52 Meander, 53 Apollonius 54 

 of Pitanae. 



35 See end of B. xxviii. S6 See end of B. viii. 37 See end of B. xviii. 

 38 See end of B. xix. 39 See end of B. ii. 40 See end of B. xx. 



41 There are four literary persons of this name mentioned by Suidas, who 

 appears to give but a confused account of them. He speaks of an ancient 

 poet of Athens of this name, who wrote a Cosmogony and other works ; 

 a native of Priene, to whom some attributed the work on <: Incredible 

 Stories," by most persons assigned to Pala3phatus of Athens; an historian 

 of Abydos, a contemporary of Alexander the Great, and a friend of Aristotle ; 

 and a grammarian of Athens of uncertain date, to whom the work on 

 " Incredible Stories " is mostly assigned. But in the former editions of 

 Pliny, the reading " Philopator " is mostly adopted ; bearing reference, it 

 lias been suggested, to a Stoic philosopher and physician of that name men- 

 tioned by Galen, " On the Symptoms of Mental Diseases," c. 8. 



42 See end of B. ii. 43 See end of B. xxi. 44 See end of B. xiii. 

 45 See end of B. xi. 46 See end of B. xii. 



47 There were two Greek physicians of this name, one of whom was a 

 native of Thasos, and wrote several medical works. The other was a native 

 of Cnidos, and, according to Suidas, a slave of the philosopher Chry- 

 sippus. Galen, however, says that he was a pupil of the physician of that 

 name, and afterwards became physician to Antigonus Gonatas, king of 

 Macedonia, B c. 283 239. Hardouin is of opinion that the two phy- 

 sicians were one and the same person. 



48 See end of B. xx. 



49 Servilius Democrates, a Greek physician at Rome about the time of 

 the Christian era. He probably received his pr&nomen from being a 

 client of the Servilian family. Pliny speaks of him in B. xxiv. c. 

 -28, and B. xxv. c. 49. He wrote several works on medicine in Greek 

 Iambic verse, the titles and a few extracts from which are preserved by 

 Galen. 



50 Probably the same physician that is mentioned by Galen as belonging 

 to the sect of the Empirici. See c. 39 of this Book. 



51 See end of B. xx. 



52 A fabulous king of Assyria, or Egypt, to whom was attributed the 

 discovery of many remedies and medicaments. See B. xxx. c. 51, and 

 B. xxxvii. c. 52. 53 See end of B. viii. 



54 Beyond the mention made of his absurd remedy in c. 38 of the pre- 

 sent Book, nothing seems to be known of this writer. 



