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who wrote in Greek, Bithus^^ of Dyrrhacliium, Opiliiis^^ the 
physician, Granius^* the physician. 
Foreign atjthoes quoted, — Democritus,^^ Apollonius^* who 
wrote the "Myrosis," Miletus,^^ Artemon,^^ Sextilius,^'^ An- 
tasus,^^ Homer, Theophrastiis,^^ Lysimachus/^ Attains/^ Xeno- 
crates/'^ Orpheus^" who wrote the Idiophya,'* Archelaiis^^ 
who wrote a similar work, Demetrius,^^ Sotira,*® Lais,^^ Ele- 
'0 From the mention made of him in Chap. 23, he was probably a 
physician. Nothing further is known of him. 
^1 Aurelius Opilius, the freedman of an Epicurean. He taught philosophy, 
rhetoric, and grammar at Eome, but finally withdrew to Smyrna. One of 
his works, mentioned by A. Gellius, was entitled " Musse," and the name 
of another was " Pinax." 
22 From the mention made of his profound speculations in Chap. 9, 
Fabricius has reckoned him among the medical writers of Eome. It has 
also been suggested that he may have been the Granius Flaccus mentioned 
by Censorinus as the author of the " Indigitamenta," or Eegister of the 
Pontiffs. 33 gee end of B. ii. 
Probably ApoUonius Mus, or Myronides, a physician who flourished 
in the first century b.c, who is mostly identified with Apollonius Hero- 
phileius. His Myrosis " here mentioned is probably the work " On 
Unguents " mentioned by Athenseus, B. xv. 
'^^ Nothing whatever is known of him. It has been suggested that the 
name may have been Melitus." A contemporary of Socrates, an orator 
and tragic writer, Avas so named. 
^6 Beyond the mention of him in c. 2 of this Book, nothing is known 
relative to this medical writer : no great loss, perhaps, if we may judge from 
the extract there given. 
2^ Though mentioned among the foreign writers, the name is evidently 
Eoman. Nothing relative to him is known. 
38 See end of B. xii. See end of B. iii. 
^0 Probably the writer mentioned at the end of E. viii. 
*i See end of B. viii. ^- See end of B. xx. 
^3 See end of B. xx. The Idiophya" was probably a work On the 
Peculiar Animals," which passed as the composition of the mythic Or.pheus. 
A Greek poet, said to have been born at Chersonesus, a town in Egypt. 
Some of his Epigrams are still extant in the Anthology, and it has been 
suggested that he flourished either in the time of Ptolemy Soter, of Ptolemy 
Euergetes II., or of Ptolemy Philadelphus. His work " On Peculiar 
Animals," here mentioned, was probably written in verse. 
'^•^ See end of B. viii. 
^6 A female writer on medical subjects. In addition to her work men- 
tioned in Chap. 23 of this Book, Labbe speaks of a work of hers in MS. 
On Menstruation, preserved in the Library at Florence. 
The female who is mentioned in Chap. 23 of this Book as having 
written on Abortion, or the Diseases peculiar to Females, was probably a 
