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of food even. There are others, too, — those, for example, ' 
formerly the property of Licinius Crassus — which send forth 
their vapours in the sea^^ even, thus providing resources for the 
health of man in the very midst of the waves I 
CHAP. 3. EEMEDIES DERIVED EEOM WATER. 
According to their respective kinds, these waters are bene- 
ficial for diseases of the sinews, feet, or hips, for sprains or for 
fractures ; they act, also, as purgatives upon the bowels, heal 
wound s,^^ and are singularly useful for affections of the head 
and ears : indeed, the waters of Cicero are good for the eyes.^* 
The country-seat where these last are found is worthy of some 
further mention : travelling from Lake Avernus towards 
Puteoli, it is to be seen on the sea- shore, renowned for its fine 
portico and its grove. Cicero gave it the name of Academia,^^ 
after the place so called at Athens : it was here that he com- 
posed those treatises^^ of his that were called after it ; it was 
here, too, that he raised those monuments^''^ to himself ; as 
though, indeed, he had not already done so throughout the 
length and breadth of the known world. 
Shortly after the death of Cicero, and when it had come 
into the possession of Antistius Vetus,^® certain hot springs 
burst forth at the very portals^^ of this house, which were 
found to be remarkably beneficial for diseases of the eyes, and 
have been celebrated in verse by Laurea Tullius,^^ one of the 
freedmen of Cicero ; a fact which proves to demonstration that 
his servants even had received inspiration from that majestic 
and all-powerful genius of his. I will give the lines, as they 
deserve to be read, not there only, but everywhere : 
12 There are still submarine volcanoes in the vicinity of Sicily, but the 
spot here referred to is now unknown. 
13 The Eaux Bonnes in the Basses Pyrenees are good for wounds. After 
the battle of Pavia they received from the soldiers of Jean d'Albret, king 
of Navarre, the name of Eaux d' arquebusade. 
1^ Only, Ajasson remarks, where the ophthalmia is caused by inflam- 
mation of the conjunctive. i^ He also called it his Puteolan villa. 
16 The Quaestiones Academicse." 
"Monumenta." Ajasson queries what monuments they were, thus 
raised by the ^* parvenu of Arpinura.'* He suggests that the erection may 
have been a chapel, temple-library, or possibly funeral monument. 
18 C. Antistius Vetus probably, a supporter of Julius Caesar, Consul 
Suffectus, B.C. 30. i^ In parte prima." 
20 There are three Epigrams, probably by this author, in the Greek An- 
thology. 
