10 NOTES ON LATIN INSCRIPTIONS 



already cited by Liddell and Scott, and ^wSov, given by Suidas. 

 QVECVMQ I regard as a contracted form of qutBcmnque, the 

 E being used for AE, and the final Q for QVE, both of 

 which uses are familiar to those conversant with Latin epigraphy. 

 DELICTA is the participle of delinquere ; or is used for derelicta from 

 derelinquere, as in Ennius "delicto Coclite" (if that be the true read- 

 ing) for " derelicto Coclite ;" or it may be that the correct reading is 

 RELICTA. The word thus admits of two interpretations, either 

 "badly treated" or "given up." The meaning of the inscription, 

 according to th^e reading which I propose, may be expressed thus : 

 "The blistering (collyrium) of Titus Junianus for such (hopeless) 

 cases as have been given up by the physicians." 



If PHOEBVM be the true reading, I am inclined to regard the 

 designation as selected with a view to the supposed superiority of Apollo 

 to his son jEsculapius, and of course to the medici the sons of 

 JEsculapius. 



This universal specific was, perhaps, used on the principle of counter- 

 irritation. Another panacea is noticed on the stamp found near 

 Cirencester (the ancient Corinium) in 1818, and described by Buckman 

 and Newmarch : 



MINERVALIS MELINV [m] 

 AD OMNEM DOLOREM. 



It may, I think, be safely inferred from the Bath inscription, if my 

 interpretation be correct, that the stamp did not belong to a regular 

 medicus, but to an empiric, possibly one of the iah'oliptce. 



The difiiculty in interpreting another legend on this stamp arises 

 from the impossibility of determining the true reading of one of the 

 words. In the books of the Society of Antiquaries the legend is given 

 thus : 



T. IVNIANI DIEXVM AD VETeRES CICATRICES. 



Dr. Simpson conjectures DIAMYSVM (the name of a well known 

 collyrium) for the inexplicable DIEXVM ; but from the copy by 

 Gough it appears that the letters between D and M are in a rude 

 Britanno-Roman character, and that "the disputed word may perhaps 

 be more correctly read DRYCVM or DRYXVM," which Dr. S. inter- 

 prets as a preparation from the bark, acorn, or galls of the Brys, i.e. 

 oak. Can it be that the word is formed from BruidcB or Btyidce, and 

 that both the appellation and the characters were adopted with a view 

 to securing its sale amongst the native population ? 



