OF ACCOMPANYING ANIMALS AND PLANTS. 529 



" 156 A. D." (Blair), Attilius Titianus for aspiring to the empire, put to death by the Senate ; the 

 only instance of proscription in the reign of Antoninus Pius. 



'' About this time " (Lucian, and Clint.), in Paphlagonia, an oracle of Aesculapius and Apollo 

 founded by Alexander, a native of the country. 



Arbutus uva-ursi of Subarctic climates. Called in Britain bearberry or bear's bilberry (Prior) : 

 the Pontic medicine APKOY:CTA*yAHC employed by Arrhabianus, — growing according to 

 Galen comp. med. vii. 4 in Pontus, a depressed shrub with leaves like those of " m£maikul6 " and 

 round red fruit, is referred here by writers : A. uva-ursi has not been observed in Greece, but is known 

 to grow throughout Siberia to Kamtchatka. Westward, is known to grow on the Appenines, Alps, 

 and Pyrenees (Savi, and Dec), and from Britain and Ireland throughout Northern Europe as far as 

 Lapland and Iceland (fl. Dan. pi. 33, fl. Lapp. pi. 6, Pers , and Hook.). Farther West, is known to' 

 grow from Arctic America throughout New England to Lat. 40 along the Atlantic (Pursh, and Con- 

 rad), on the Saskatchewan in Lat. 54° (Drumm.), the Rocky mountains (James), and Unalascha in the 

 Pacific (Cham.). The leaves "in the form of decoction and powder," according to Pereira, and 

 Lindley, are "used in nephritic" complaints. 



" 161, March 7th" (Dio, and Clint), Antoninus Pius succeeded by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, 

 sixteenth Roman emperor. Who at once associated Lucius Verus in the government. Separate 

 hieroglyphic ovals of the associate emperors, occur at Philee — (Glid. analect.). 



"The same year" (coins, and Clint.), in Rome, dedication of the column of Antoninus Pius. — 

 This column continues almost uninjured to the present day. 



" 162 A. D." (Capitolin., and Clint.), the Roman territories in Asia invaded by the Parthians 

 under Vologesus, and Verus sent against him. — The war continued four years. 



"The same year" (Iren., and Clint, iv. p. 177), Anicetus succeeded by Soter, eleventh bishop of 

 Rome. 



" 165 A. D." (Amm. Marc, Hieronym., and Clint ) at the Olympic Games, self-immolation by 

 burning of the philosopher Pe.regrinus. The satirist Lucian being among the spectators. 



" 166 A. D." (Euseb., and Clint.), persecution of Christians ; and Polycarp, who had seen 

 John and others of the apostles, put to death. 



Celtis Tourneforlii of Asia Minor. A tree, said to have been raised from the staff of Polycarp, 

 — and planted before his tomb at Smyrna, appeared to Tournefort trav. iii. 292 to 380 the same 

 seen by himself farther East on the route to Tocat, little larger than a plum, and having yel- 

 low styptic drupes. C. Tournefortii, transferred to the gardens of Europe, is described by Miller 

 (Pers.). 



" 167 A. D." (Galen xix. p. 15, Euseb., and Clint.), pestilence at Rome ; said to have originated 

 in Babylonia, and to have accompanied Verus and his companions throughout their return home. 



Trees in Hyrcania whose leaves are sprinkled with honey, which unless collected at sunrise dis- 

 appears, are mentioned by Quintus Curtius, — obviously honey-dew : Galen also speaks of a substance 

 like dew, foreign to but occasionally found on the leaves of plants (Ruel iii. 21). 



One hundred and thirty-fourth generation. Sept. 1st, 167, onward mostly beyond youth : Phry- 

 nichus of Arabia (compare Hippocratic sentences) : the Greek poet Oppianus of Cilicia ; the phil- 

 osophers, Alexander of Damascus, and Atticus ; the geographer Dionysius Periegetes ; the historians, 

 Amyntianus, Chryseros, and Pausanias ; the rhetors, Proclus of Naucratis, Demostratus, Theodotus, 

 Alexander of Cilicia, Hermogenes, Chrestus, Athenodorus, Heracleides, Ptolemaeus of Naucratis, 

 Apollonius of Athens, and Onomarchus ; the Christian Greek writers, Athenagoras, Apollinaris of 

 Hierapolis, Meliton of Sardis, Musanus, Modestus, Miltiades, Heraclitus, Candidus, Dionysius of 

 Corinth, and Pinytus of Crete. 



In this year (= 185 — " 18 years reign" in the Mahavamsa xxxvi.), Bhatia-tissa succeeded by 

 his brother Mula-tissa, now king of Ceylon. 



" 168 A. D. = 'kan-ning,' 1st year of Hiao-ling-ti " or Ling-ti, of the Han or Seventh dynasty 

 (Chinese chron. table). He caused the five "king" or canonical books to be engraved on marble. 

 Which transcript remained at the entrance to the Academy building " seven hundred years " (Pauth. 



p. 267). 



" 169, December" (Capitolin., Clint., and Sm. biog. diet.), death of the associate emperor Verus. 

 Galen, who had just joined the two emperors at Aquileia, accompanied M. Aurelius to Rome, and 

 was appointed physician to Commodus now "nine " years old. 



Drosera rotundifolia of Northern climates. With other species called in Britain sundew, by 

 Lyte "sonnedewe," in Germany " sindau " (Prior), and the "epatica" growing according to Galen 

 " in moist stony places and dew or a drop of water falling upon it " — (Serapion, and Ort. san. 159), 

 mentioned also by Platearius, may be compared: D. rotundifolia is known to grow from the Alps 

 and Pyrenees throughout middle and Northern Europe as far as Lapland and Iceland (fl. Dan. pi. 

 1028, Pers., Brot., Hook., and Wats.). Eastward, species of Drosera have not been observed in 



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