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Pliny's nattjbal histoet. 
[Book XXIX. 
lius^^ the physician, Metellus Scipio,^^ the Poet Ovid,^*^ Lici- 
nius Macer.^^ 
FoEEiGN" AUTHOKS QUOTED. — -Homer, Aristotle,^^ Orpheus/^ 
Palaephatus/^ Democritus/^ Anaxilaiis.'*^ 
Medical authoes quoted. — Botrys/* Apollodorus/^ Archi- 
demus,''^ Aristogenes/'^ Xenocrates/^ Democrates/^ Diodorus,^ 
Chrysippus^^ the philosopher, Horus,^^ Nicander,^^ Apollonius^* 
of Pitanse. 
35 See end of B. xxviii. g^e end of B. viii. ^7 gee end of B. xviii. 
38 See end of B. xix. 39 gee end of B. ii. gee end of B. xx. 
There are four Kterary persons of this name mentioned by Suidas, who 
appears to give but a confused account of them. He speaks of an ancient 
poet of Athens of this name, who wrote a Cosmogony and other works ; 
a native of Priene, to whom some attributed the work on Incredible 
Stories," by most persons assigned to Palaephatus of Athens ; an historian 
of Abydos, a contemporary of Alexander the Great, and a friend of Aristotle ; 
and a grammarian of Athens of uncertain date, to whom the work on 
" Incredible Stories " is mostly assigned. But in the former editions of 
Pliny, the reading " Philopator " is mostly adopted ; bearing reference, it 
has been suggested, to a Stoic philosopher and physician of that name men- 
tioned by Galen, On the Symptoms of Mental Diseases," c. 8. 
^2 See end of B. ii. See end of B. xxi. See end of B. xiii. 
45 See end of B. xi. gee end of B. xii. 
There were two Greek physicians of this name, one of whom was a 
native of Thasos, and wrote several medical works. The other was a native 
of Cnidos, and, according to Suidas, a slave of the philosopher Chry- 
sippus. Galen, however, says that he was a pupil of the physician of that 
name, and afterwards became physician to Antigonus Gonatas, king of 
Macedonia, b.c. 283 — 239. Hardouin is of opinion that the two phy- 
sicians were one and the same person. 
See end of B. xx. 
Servilius Democrates, a Greek physician at Eome about the time of 
the Christian era. He probably received his prsenomen from being a 
client of the Servilian family. Pliny speaks of him in B. xxiv. c. 
28, and B. xxv. c. 49. He wrote several works on medicine in Greek 
Iambic verse, the titles and a few extracts from which are preserved by 
Galen. 
50 Probably the same physician that is mentioned by Galen as belonging 
to the sect of the Empirici. See c. 39 of this Book. 
51 See end of B. xx. 
52 A fabulous king of Assyria, or Egypt, to whom was attributed the 
discovery of many remedies and medicaments. See B. xxx. c. 51, and 
B. xxxvii. c. 52. See end of B. viii. 
5* Beyond the mention made of his absurd remedy in c. 38 of the pre- 
sent Book, nothing seems to be known of this writer. 
