168 Aster History; THEODORUS PRISCIANUS 
Greece (now called, with that meaning, ¢vAiocya and zovutea), the 
Erigeron viscosum and graveolens of Linnaeus, both species now 
forming part of the genus Pulicaria of Gaertner. 
: Previous appearances of the latter Pulicaria in Latin had oc- 
curred under the name Conysa minor, as in the writings of Scribo- 
nius Largus,* perhaps 35 A. D.; in his Commpositiones, 167; and 
afterward in Pliny. 
XVII. Marcetius Empiricus 
One of the most interesting of ancient authors in connection 
with plant-names, the statesman of Gaul, Marcellus Empiricus,t 
(who may thus be distinguished from the more ancient physician, 
Marcellus Sidetest) was author, about 408 A. D., of a work De 
Medicamentis, the more remarkable as of value for both physician 
and botanist. 
Meyer praises Marcellus’ work § as the richest in plants since 
= cribonius Largus, detinies called orpparaany celebrated as a Roman 
was court physician to Claudius 
der which he pleased for ee is the 60th of the -cieaionitions in his chapter xi. To- 
; n 
at Paris by Ruel, 1529; at Padua by Rhodius, with a lexicon, 1655, and again by 
Bernhold (ex /iér. Meyer) 1786. He is one of the chief haus for the pa 
Roman names Urcedaris for Parietaria, and Sertu/a campana for Melilotus. He m 
tions /nula campana, Eryngium, et 
+ Marcellus Empiricus, a native of Gaul, and some say of Bordeaux, in age: 
** Magister officiorum ”’ at the court of the Roman emperor Theodosius, on 305» GR 
under Arcadius, his successor, 395-408. From humility and as if esteeming ae 
; is i himeelf called ‘* the epitome of 
all virtue’? by Suidas; was of the Christian faith ; urged his emperor to banish “all 
heretics’’ from Constantinople, his capital. 
t Marcellus eae gS native of Side in Pamphylia, whose long medical poem, Saltles 
written perhaps about 140 A. D., 42 books of Greek hexameter verse, survives in Oe 
fragments only, the longer, on fishes, consisting of 1o1 line 
4 Marcellus Empiricus ‘De N icamentis,’’ first petit in Aldus’ series * Med Os 
ca) shite principes,’’ Venice, 1547, edited by Cornarius ; again, 1567; Meyer secu 
: 
He was also author (fide Meyer) of a poem on plants in 78 hexameters, first — 
