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ACTUARIUS’ ASTER 189 
partly in the same words as his Buphthalmon;* and is, I think, 
the first author to use the word Lulakion, to be compared with 
the modern. Greek for a daisy or for a flower in general, in the 
form Aoviovfea : and with Persian //ak, the “Jac. 
XXXII. Nicoraos Myrepsos, Alexandrinus, author ofa Greek 
Antidotarium, between 1270-1280, not yet printed ; a Latin trans- 
lation by Fuchs appeared in 1549 in 48 sections, at Basle ; and an 
earlier one by Ammonius, at Ingolstadt, 1541. 
XXXIII. Acruarius. Perhaps the next Greek writer to 
mention Aster Atticus was Actuarius,} Greek physician of Con- 
stantinople, who wrote t about 1300 A. D., quoting Dioscorides 
upon Aster, and who is cited by Bodaeus as identifying Theophras- 
tus’ Asterion with Aster. 
MEDIAEVAL PLANT-WRITERS OF THE WEST 
The search for indications of the attitude of mediaeval writers to 
Aster,—which involves their attitude to the Compositae and to many 
other plants—leads next to an almost untrodden field. It requires 
an examination into the approximate place, time, character and 
value of many little-known plant-writers, some of whose works § 
have but recently come within the knowledge of science. Only 
in this way is it possible to trace the sources of the Aster-chapter 
in the Ortus Sanitatis, which ushers in the Revival of Learning. 
I have therefore treated this less familiar part of the subject— 
substantially the period 800-1300 A. D.—with much greater full- 
Was a slip for Amygdalus or Amandalus, and the peach may have been the real intention. 
8. 
tIn his De Methodo Medendi, Oeparevtixt; MéBodoc, in 6 books ; of the Greek text 
ia books 1 and 2 have been printed (see Ideler’s Physict Minores). A Latin trans- 
stm of all, by Mathisius, first appeared at Venice, 15543 the 5th and 6th books were 
os — to the north. Meyer, 3: 386, styles Actuarius ‘a man of Geist and a clas- 
= Philosopher, worthy of birth in a better age.”’ - ; 
@As the Della Confesione in Magistri Salernitani, Turin, 1901. 
