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virtues of simples.’’ Giacosa suggests that Gariopontus may have 
been the redactor who made.the rearrangement which Constantinus 
used. A considerable part of what Constantinus knew as the “ Di- 
namidii”’ is lost to us, and seems not to have formed a part of the 
“rearrangement ’’ used by Constantinus, surviving then, as he says, 
but ‘too much corroded by the wastes wrought by copyists, and 
by blunders due to the depravity of scribes.’ Giacosa points out 
three distinct elements in the printed Dynamidus « 
A, the first book, an ancient epistle to Paternianus ; perhaps 
belonged originally with 4, zzfra. 
B, introducing the second book ; a letter from a “ Hippo- 
crates,” 7.¢.,a physician, toa Maecenas of pagan Rome. It contains 
the injunction: “In Terentius Euelpistius’ last book you may read 
the Dynames Herbarum ; which herbs take heed to dig as you ob- 
serve their growth under the changes of the moon.” Giacosa re- 
marks: “J can find no other trace of this Terenzio Evelpisto.” In 
fact, the query suggests itself, Can it be that part C of the Dinamudii 
was meant by the Dynames Herbarum, and that its author bore 
this name Terentius?—An early “‘ Epistola Ippocratis ad Anti- 
ochum regem de tuenda valetudine”’ (published in Helmreich’s 
Marcellus Empiricus), may be, says Giacosa, a more ancient 
variant of this letter to Maecenas. 
C; forming the main part of this second book ; an antido- 
tarium, with prescriptions, etc.; being the part apparently chiefly 
important to Constantinus, and used by him. 
Works (3 and 4) follow, which have been ascribed to Gario- 
pontus by Renzi or Meyer, but are now proved earlier by Giacosa. 
3. Dynamidiorum \ibri duo; by which name Cardinal Mai 
published at Rome in 1835 * the rst and 2d books out of a 
treatise of 5 books discovered by him in a-Vatican codex of the 
loth century. Mai believed them hitherto unprinted, but they 
Proved to be part of the ancient anonymous work printed by L. 
Schott at Strasburg in 1533, under the erroneous title of Oribastt 
medici de simplicibus libri quinque. The Dynamidiorum was 
treated by Renzi and Meyer as probably a work of Gariopontus , 
but the Mai MS. was probably written before Gariopontus’ birth, 
and the unknown author may not have been much later than Apu- 
* Classicorum auctorum e Vaticanis coda. 7:397, +- 
