238 POPULAR NAMES 



It was so named from the vipers that were added to the 

 Mithridate by Andromachus, physician to the Emperor 

 Nero. 



"Andromachus a voulu changer le nom de Mithridate 

 en celuy de Theriaque, a cause des viperes, auxquelles il a 

 attribue le nom de Oypwv, et lesquelles il a ajoute pour la 

 base principale de cette composition." Chares, 1'histoire 

 des animaux, etc., qui entrent dans la Theriaque. Paris, 

 1668. See also Heberden's Antitheriaca. 



This remedy, triacle, as it was called, was the source of 

 many popular tales of sorcerers eating poison, and was re- 

 tained in the London Pharmacopeia till about 100 years ago. 

 It was to cure " all those that were bitten or stung of veno- 

 mous beastes, or had drunk poison, or were infected with 

 the pestilence." The name has extended into Persia, where 

 opium is called Teryak. Vambery (Central Asia, p. 428). 

 See Pr. Pm., v. Treacle. Erysimum cheiranthoides, L. 



TEEACLB, POOR-MAN'S-, Allium sativum, L. 



TREE, A.S. treow, a word in which we find very much 

 mixed up in different languages the meaning of a living 

 tree, timber, and an oak-tree especially : Skr. druma, druta, 

 dru, tree, ddru, wood ; Zend, dru ; Gr. Bopv, both a spear- 

 shaft and a tree, Spvs, an oak and a tree generally ; Slav. 

 drevo and dervo, both wood and tree ; Alban. dru, wood ; 

 Wei. dar, derw, oak ; Gael, darach ; Go. triu, A.S. treow, 

 Da. trd, both wood and tree. These words seem to be re- 

 lated to Skr. dhruva, Zend, drva, firm, O.H.G. triu, true. 

 It is certainly remarkable that at the early period of the 

 first formation in Asia of our common mother-language, 

 and long before the invention of steel, so hard a wood as 

 that of the oak should have been so commonly used, as to 

 have become synonymous with timber generally. Yet 

 the most ancient boats that have been discovered are of 

 this tree, hollowed out with the aid of fire, and tools of 

 stone. 



