BOOK VII. xwvii. 123-125 

 XXXVII. The people who have achievcd distine- Eminmtmen 



-.11 11 ^ii ■ • of science, 



tion m the knowledge 01 the various sciences are medinne 

 innumerable, but neverthelcss they must be touched «"^ '»'■'• 

 ©n wlien we are cuning the flower of mankind : in 

 astronomy, Berosus, to whom on account of his 

 marvellous predictions Athens officially erected in 

 the exercising ground a statue with a gilt tongue ; 

 in philology, Apollodorus, wliom the Amphictyons 

 of Greece honoured; in medicine, Hippocrates, who 

 foretold a plague that was coming from Illyria and 

 despatched his pupils round the cities to render 

 assistance, in return for which service Greece voted 

 him the honours that it gave to Hercules. Tlie same 

 knowledge in the case of Cleombrotus of Ceos was 

 rewarded by King Ptolcmy at the Megalensian 

 Festival with 100 talents, after he had saved thc Hfe 

 of King Antiochus." Critobulus also has a great 

 reputation for having extracted an arrow from 

 King Phihp's eye,'' and having treated his loss of 

 sight without causing disfigurement of his face ; but 

 the highest reputation belongs to Asclepiades of 

 Prusa, for having founded a new school, despised the 

 envoys and overtures of King Mithridates, discovered 

 a method of preparing medicated wine for the sick, 

 brought back a man from burial and saved his hfe, 

 but most of all for having made a wager \nth 

 fortune that he should not be deemed a physician 

 if lie were ever in any way ill himself : and he won 

 his bet, as he lost his hfe in extreme okl age by 

 falhng dowTLstairs. 



Archimedes also received striking testimony to 

 his knowledge of geometry and mechanics from 

 Marcus Marcellus, who at the capture of Syracuse 

 forbade violence to be donc to him only — had not 



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