140 AsTER History; DioscoripDEs 
ceded by a Dioscorides Phaca, the Herophilean, of about 50 B. C., 
who left, says Suidas, 24 books de medica arte (now lost) ; and suc- 
ceeded by a Dioscorides the Younger * of about 100 A. D., prob- 
ably author, thought Sprengel, of the 6th and 7th so-called books 
of Dioscorides Anazarbeus ; or of the 6th only, thought Meyer. 
Dioscorides’ works remaining are, 1st, the five books De materia 
medica, + rept Udns tatu, his famed descriptions of plants clos- 
ing with the fourth ; the plants have been counted as 700, of which 
the identity of at least 400 is known; 2d, two books, De alexi- 
pharmacis and De theriaca, already united to the preceding five in 
the 7th or 8th century, also classed with them by Photius in the 
gth century, but separated by Saracenus and Sprengel. Sprengel 
ascribed both, Meyer one only, to Dioscorides the Younger. 
Third among the works ascribed to Dioscorides Anazarbeus is 
that variously known as Euporista, or De Parabilibus, zept sono0pta- 
tw, the Hausmittel or “Household Remedies,” in two books, 
preserved to us only in a single manuscript, the Augustan, first 
printed and edited at Strasburg, 1565, by Moiban and Gesner, 
who deemed it a spurious work of Dioscorides - edited with Dios- 
corides, but deemed spurious, t by Saracenus in 1598 and Sprengel, 
1830, but claimed as perhaps genuine by Meyer in 1855, though 
he was doubting it again in 1857. 
In this Euporista, bk. 11, c. 11 5, the author mentions 72 
plants efficacious against viper bites, used in wine or in food; 
among them the 23d is, datévos attimod co dvOos, i. ¢., ‘the 
flower of Aster Atticus” ; the 6th remedy following is the white 
earth of Samos, used for the same purpose, and called y#s oapiaz 
ser by Galen; wrote descriptions of plants and animals, compiled from Ana- 
zarbeus, Cratevas, etc. 
by Saracenus, Frankfort, 1598. First published in the original Greek in Venice by Al- 
Matthioli, 1544, also at Venice ; in German, by von Ast, 1 546, at Frankfort; in F rench 
by Matthee, 1553 at Lyons ; in Spanish by de Laguna, 1555. For commentators, ete-, 
vide infra, under A -abic writers and under the Revival of Learning. 
{ Because containing three or four names supposed not to be introduced into Greek 
till about 600 A. D., but which might have been interpolations. Oribasius quotes ns 
Euporista apparently, about 362 A. D 
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