T II I' 





T H i 



Mm.: that oi Athena, Imt earn mi; the hoin ol plenty 

 1 a pair ol s,.. -les ill tin- oil 



.mtieiil physician, who i- 



probablx best known to in '"" 



\\hv JJI) 



Qool Tlirmliua *rfn* aurturaiio oaakdri 

 but who was HI n-alitx the founder of n celebrated a 



1 hi- tune. 



.-, born ;it Ijiodu T.I in Sxiia, in the liist cent- 

 fore Christ, ami. from .Juvenal's Hue above t| 



! conjectured to huve practised at Komr. He 

 was n pupil of Asclcpiadcs. from whose opinion* hOW- 

 disscnted, and finished In founding 

 a new nu-ili.-al sect, called tin- Methodic.. 1'hnx. Httt, 



hi. \M\.. rap. r,. <-d. Tan.-hn. ; Calcn. liitrnd 

 I. torn. \iv.. ], '-. Kiihn: Cramer. 



. vol. i.. p. :).-. I. 'Jii. 'Hie following is the ana- 

 ,,f Ihe opinions of tins school, which is given b 

 ction to his work : i 



lysis Ol ine opinions in UN- .-v i.-".,. ....... 



is m Ihe historical introduction to his work : 

 assert that the knowledge of no cause whatever bears the 



relation to the method of cure: and that it is snl- 

 tome general M inptoms of distempers : 

 and that there are three kinds of diseases, one bound, an- 

 other loose,* and the third a mixture of these. For that 



:imes the excretions of sick people arc too - 

 .sometimes too large : and sometimes one particular excre- 

 tion is deficient, while anoth. live. That these 

 kinds of distempers are sometimes acute, and son 

 chronic : sometimes increasing, sometime:- at a sland.'J: and 

 abating. A- soon then as it is known to which 

 of these classes a distemper belongs, if the body be bound, 

 it mi:-' 1 : ii' "' labours under a flux, il must be 

 -.ned : if the distemper be complicated, then the most 

 'ad-, must be first opposed. And that one kind 



..iment is lequired in acute, another in inveterate dis- 

 tempers : another when di- Bother 

 -.x ben at a stand: and another when inclining to health. 

 That the observation of these things constitute- 

 inedieine. which they define as a certain way of pi. 

 ing, xvhich the Greeks call nnlhoil . /itOui'oc and affirm it 

 to"be employed in considering those things that are com- 

 mon to the same distempers : nor are they willing to base 



themselves classed either with the rationafists (t.. tli. 



matici .. or with those who regard oulx cxpcrimeu'- 

 the Empiriei : for they dissent from the 1irst :eel. 10 

 they will not allow medicine to conr-ist in forming O 

 tnres about the occult things : and a'-o fiom the other in 

 he) hold the oKsi-r\aion of experiments to be a 



-mall part of tl, " llat 



now of his mode of treating diseases does not give us 



h idea of hi.- skill in therapeutics. lie Ibouglit 



lie could cure the most violent attacks of pneumonia by 



meUS Of Oil and baths; in pleuii>y he permitted the use 



of wine mixed with sea-water. ' 'acl. Aim-l.. !>> Morb.Acut., 

 lib. i., cap. 10, p. O'i 03) ; he recommended also \i<.unt 



. ial acute diseases. Id., ilinl.. lib. ii., cap. 

 111. He i- said b\ Sprc.igcl (Hitt. fa la Mid.} 

 to have been ih' tii - -ho made use of leeches. 



1,1.. ' I'lirmi.. rib. i.. cap. 1, p. 288. Me 



.. have bi-en himself attacked with hydrophobia, and 



to 1, . red. Id.. Ii- Mali. Ann., lib. iii.. cap. 



Hi, ; ..cap. 1. p. !!.) He wrote 



works, of which nothing but the titles re- 



mnj,, '.. C/inni.. lib. i.. cap. 1. p. 



23; ii. 7. p. liW, &c. I: 



of whom Ihe most i-miii ^iranus 



rs ( ; ]; .Ints Aurelianus. 



- hromi -is' is one of the 



m ost of aiitiqm' : ulhor of the 



W ork ' ' Iln0iir, ' De Muhcimn Pas- 



biombus.' 



Sprengel, //!-/. '/-' /' .'/.'-/. : PabnciUS, fnO/IOM.Gl 

 Mailer, liilioth. M>;/,r. /',,/-/. /c : Jfn't. "f 



hitii/.. art. Method]. 



In thU lait puu^r UK name i, \uilli-r. MOi;TUi-, uhi-li >-o .t t* 1. ft 

 annotkcd l.v '- nlitur. 1ml n. 

 IhjU th Torl t .. ' ttoranlc Olactly the aamc ioiind. ami i.'.ii 



. , 1*1 (in cl Wwttl* have 1 '- , , r- n -. . *..l.i- >- .! 



cvntaif Io UM mccrmt and not ft" ., "(initiy ; M> i 



, , .... .;.,.!. tii.--. , . much alikr ..-. l'(irni-'.--ii .i."l *-l"t ,.'.-. i 



:.. .n .1 i- Jl"r*', that U, a ili^mlrc altcwli-d with lomo 



t Oat uiihoc BMUU h<m the <ir/iq of a diwaar. alUr which It inarouca no 



TMKMISTIl S. ,.| l'Hphla:rom.i. v.a- a distin-nislu d 

 o,alor in the lomlli cent iirisl. and 



Mi'mt of hi- skill in hi- 

 imieh liivinired by Ihe Koimin , 

 ( 'on-tantiiis made him a senator: .lulian appointed him 



.nlinople in 'M'2, and eorrenponded 

 him by letters: and although he wa.s a heathen, In 

 intrusted b\ Theodo-ius Ii .tb the- edueati- 



Ins -on Aieadms. In th- appointed, 



oml lime, pielect of Constantinople; and 

 nosl l.irlx ti dlx 



employeil in cm 'id oilier stall- 



was the teacher of J.il.anms and Augustin, and kept up 

 a friendly intercouiM' with (. xa/.ianzen, who 



calls him' in hi- Ictlei- the kim: of arguments 



Themistius had deeply studied the writing of }'l :l lo and 

 tie; and he taught the Peripatetic phi!' 



well as rhetoric, at Home and Constantinople. 



Of lhirtx-si\ orations composed by him which 

 known to i'hotins. thirty-three have come down to 

 the original Cireek. and one in a Latin translation. 

 haxe rcl'i-ience for the most part to public 

 xeial of them arc paneiTvrics upon the emperors by whom 

 the orator was patronised. 



Kdifions of some of the outturns were published by 

 Aldus lol. l.VM , II. Stephens BvO. l"'(i- . Kemu- 

 KHI.")), I'etau (Kvo. Killi. and Ho. HilK . The mo-t com- 

 plete edition is that of Haidnin Pan-. KiSJ. lol. . which 

 contains thirty-three orations. Ihiiteeii of which had not 

 been printed before. Another oration was disi-ox crcd by 

 Amrdo Mai. and published by him at Milan. Isle 

 \V. Dindorf also published, in 1880, two orations of Thc- 

 niistiii- I from a Milan MS. 



The philosophical works of Themistius . 

 meiitaiies, in the fonii of paraphrase... on 

 tot],.'- D (iieek, and two Latin us of 



commentaries, one upon the work 'On Heaven, 1 and the 



other upon the twelfth book of Ihe Mclaplu The 



paraphrases were lust published in a Latin w-r.-ion by 

 Hermolans Harbanis, MKl, which has been several time.- 

 reprinted: thedieek text of them forms part of theAldme 

 edition of Themistins. The two commentaries in Latin 

 .rinted at Venice in l.V.S, I."i70, and l.'.Tl. i 



by Themislius in the collection of II. 



1577. 



(S.-holl. i;,^,-/iii-/itf il'-r dn.'rli. Lilt., in. 90, 388.) 

 THKMISTO. M. (iuerin's name for a genus of Ainjilii- 

 ,!,/.< OnutOOtOlU, placed by M. Milne Edwards in Hie 

 Iribe of Ordinary Ili/ji<-riii<'\. the second tribe of his farrnly 



. 



Example, Th<-mi*t>, GamUchandu. 



Locality. Found by M. Gaudichaud at the Falkland 



Islands. 



N.B. _ M. Milne Edwards distinguishes irom this s; 

 i'mixt'i (iiiudi:' Sii/,fi/. to Sir .John K,.s-'s 



amini; it Thrmixtti urclicii. ('apt. James Ho---. 

 ibimil the northern species near the west coast of 

 Ihe peninsula of KOOTIIIA. 



THEMI'STOCLES (9s^ifW(Mc) was born aboul th. 



II. Me was the son of Nicoclcs, an Athenian of 

 moderate fortune, xvho however was connected with the 

 j>ricstl the I.xeomcdu-: his mother. Abrot-- 



ng io others. Euteipe. w:ts not an Athenian 

 <-iti/en: and. according to most authorities, not exen a 

 ' .but either a native of ('aria or of Thrace. 



;ion which he received xvas like that of all Athenians 

 lk at the time, but Theimstocles had no taste for the 

 i! arts which then beifan to form a prominent part in 

 the education of Athenian youths: he applied himself 

 with much more /cal Io the pursuit of practical and useful 

 knowledge. This, as well as the numerous anecdotes about 

 .i.tbfnl XMlfulmss ami waywardness, together with the 

 uleeplew nights which he is said to h.ive passed in n 

 on the trophies of Miltiades, an more or lew 



symptoms of Ihe character which I lentlx clis- 



d as a general and a statesman. His mind was 

 Dent upon ','ivat tiling. :md was incapable of bein^dixcited 

 iM-m them by n , or difficulties. Th- 



of bis Ii to have been to make Athens 



that hi' himself might I"- treat. Tin- 



powers with which naluie had endowed him xvere. ipnck- 



judginent of the i- 



