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collyrium is not HOFSUM, as he gives it, but apparently PHOEBUM, At all 

 events there is a P, which he has omitted, before the H; and the two medial 

 Jetters, which he read FS, are seemingly EB. Such is the conclusion to which the. 

 examination of the lettering of the cast itself forces me ; and what is much more 

 important, because affording far stronger evidence than mine, Mr. Akerraan reads 

 this inscription in the same way. I may add that (as I am informed by the same 

 gentleman,) the word is copied and written as PHOEBUM, in the several notices- 

 contained in the minute-books of the Antiquarian Society, and to which I have' 

 already referred ; and Gough's p always given as Q. 



Still, with all these emendations, I confess myself quite at a loss to decipher^ 

 satisfactorily, the inscription. The spelling of all the inscriptions on this stamp is 

 executed very carelessly, — as in crsomaelinum for crysomelinnm ; thai user for 

 thalasser ; and possibly the term QUECVMO may be amis-spelling, by the en- 

 graver, for LEUCOMA. If so, the inscription would stand as 

 T JUNTA N I PHOEBUM AD LU 

 ECOMA DELICTA A xVIEDICIS. 



" The Phoebum of T. Junianus for Zeucoma, esteemed by physicians" 



I am not aware that any of the old authors have described a collyrium under 

 the name of PHOEBUM. But it looks like one of those high-sounding titles which 

 the oculists were so fond of selecting and assuming, and we find described in their 

 works collyria with such semi-astronomical appellations, as Sol, Aster, Lumen,. 

 JPhos, &(i. 



I shall venture only one more remark, viz: the possibility of the term being 

 PHORBIUM and not PHOEBUM. ' The Phorbium,' observes Galen, 'possesses 

 attenuating, attractive, and diseutient powers. They apply its seeds mixed with 

 honey to Leueoma, and it is believed to have the power of extracting spicula 

 o-f wood.' 



The obvious objections to Dr. Simpson's interpretation are : — 



1st. That we should have had delictum and not delicta. 



2nd. That the participles dileeta or delecta are confused with delicta^ 



3rd. That his interpretation requires us to regard quecumo as a 

 misspelling for leueoma. 



As the circumstances seem to warrant a resort to conjecture, I would 

 suggest PHOEDVM for PHOEBVM,and QVECVMQ for QVECVMO j 

 and read the whole legend thus : — 



T. IVNIANI PHOEDYM ADQV 

 ECYMQ DELICTA A MEDICIS. 

 i. e. T. IVNIANI PHOEDVM AD QVECVMQ DELICTA A 

 MEDICIS. 



It will be observed that the only conjectural variations are D for B 

 and Q for 0. 



PHOEDVM, I regard as the Latinized form of ^OIAONor *OIA0N, 

 derived frome^co^w, whence ^otSes or(^(2i8es,used by Aristotle, Probl. 38,7, 

 Aristophanes,Plut. 535, and Hippocrates, CEcon. p. 404. Ed. Foes» 



