BOOK I 



slrainiiig, dysentery, the sea,t, tlie private parts, 

 b!ood-stancLing, gout, dropsy, ulcers, 26 wounds, pus, 

 bones, whitlows, erysipelas, haemorrhoids, ulcers, 

 callus, pimples, mange, scars, infants, ailments of 

 women, depilatory, sex restraint, for the voice, 

 agiiinst attacks of frerzy — Tutal, 915 facts, in- 

 vestigations and ohservations. 



Authorities : Lucius Piso, Antias, ^^errius, Marcus 

 Varro, Cornehus Nepos, Rufus Messala, the poet 

 Marsus, Bocchus, JuHus Bassus's Greek treatise on 

 medicine, Sextius Niger's ditto, Fabius Vestahs. 

 Foreign authorities : Democritus, Metrodorus of 

 Scepsis, Menaechmus's Art of Graving, Xenocrates 

 diito, Antigonus ditto, Duris ditto, Hehodorus's 

 Votive Offerings of Athens, Pasiteles's Masterpieces, 

 Timaeus's Mineral Drvgs, Nymphodorus, lollas, 

 Apollodorus, Andreas, Herachdes, Diagoras, Botrys, 

 Archedemus, Dionysius, Aristogenes, Democles, 

 Mnesides, Xenocrates son of Zeno, Theomnestus. 



Book XXXV. Contents : (i-x) Praise of painting, 

 Praise of sculpture. Shields witli sculptured figures, 

 when first instituted ; when first set up in pubhc ; 

 when in private houses. The commencement of 

 painting ; pictures in monochrome ; the first 

 paiuters. Antiquity of paintings in Italy. Roman 

 painters. Painting — when first esteemed at Rome, 

 and for what reasons, who first exhibited paintings 

 of their victories. Foreign pictures, when first 

 valued at Rome. (xi) Method of painting. (xii- 

 xxx) Non-mineral pigments. Artificial colours ; 

 red ochre, 11 drugs from it; red chalk ; Lemnian 



qui primi ? Eackham. 



