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of food even. There are others, too, those, for example, 

 formerly the property of Licinius Crassus which send forth 

 their vapours in the sea 12 even, thus providing resources for the 

 health of man in. the very midst of the waves ! 



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According to their respective kinds, these waters are bene- 

 ficial for diseases of the sinews, feet, or hips, for sprains or for 

 fractures ; they act, also, as purgatives upon the bowels, heal 

 wounds, 13 and are singularly useful for affections of the head 

 and ears : indeed, the waters of Cicero are good for the eyes. 14 

 The country-seat where these last are found is worthy of some 

 further mention : travelling from Lake Avernus towards 

 Puteoli, it is to be seen on the sea-shore, renowned for its fine 

 portico and its grove. Cicero gave it the name of Academia, 15 

 after the place so called at Athens : it was here that he com- 

 posed those treatises 16 of his that were called after it ; it was 

 here, too, that he raised those monuments 17 to himself; as 

 though, indeed, he had not already done so throughout the 

 length and breadth of the known world. 



Shortly after the death of Cicero, and when it had come 

 into the possession of Antistius Vetus, 18 certain hot springs 

 burst forth at the very portals 19 of this house, which were 

 found to be remarkably beneficial for diseases of the eyes, and 

 have been celebrated in verse by Laurea Tullius, 20 one of the 

 freedmen of Cicero ; a fact which proves to demonstration that 

 his servants even had received inspiration from that majestic 

 and all-powerful genius of his. I will give the lines, as they 

 deserve to be read, not there only, but everywhere : 



12 There are still submarine volcanoes in the vicinity of Sicily, but the 

 spot here referred to is now unknown. 



13 The Eaux Bonnes in the Basses Pyrenees are good for wounds. After 

 the battle of Pavia they received from the soldiers of Jean d'Albret, king 

 of Navarre, the name of Eaux d 'arquebusade. 



14 Only, Ajasson remarks, where the ophthalmia is caused by inflam- 

 mation of the conjunctive. 15 He also called it his Puteolan villa. 



16 The " Qua3stioues Academicae." 



17 "Monumenta." Ajasson queries what monuments they were, thus 

 raised by the "parvenu of Arpinum." He suggests that the erection may 

 have been a chapel, temple-library, or possibly funeral monument. 



18 C. Antistius Vetus probably, a supporter of Julius Caesar, Consul 

 Suffectus, B.C. 30. 19 " In parte prima." 



20 There are three Epigrams, probably by this author, in the Greek An- 

 thology. 



