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Reverse , not given. 
Rovillio, loc. cit ., p. 98, fig. 
Xenophon, of Cos, physician to the Emperor Claudius, 
61. Obverse. Bust, to right. Inscription : ZEN 0 &&N 
Reverse. Female, erect, to right, wearing mural crown. 
Edges beaded. 12. 18 mm. 
Gaetani, I, p. 10, pi. II, No. 7; Moehsen, I, p. 257, fig. 
There is mentioned in the Index-Catalogue of the Library at 
the U. S. Surgeon General’s Office at Washington, in connec¬ 
tion with the above and as though it were a second medal of 
Xenophon, the engraving by F. C. Krueger of a medal with “ V. 
Camelio ” upon the reverse. Surgeon Billings, however, writes 
me that it was thus classified through a clerical error. The 
medal in question is, in fact, one of several of a wholly non¬ 
medical person, a very prevalent misapprehension concerning 
whom will now be indicated. 
Till recently it has been supposed that there existed medals 
of Camelius, physician to the Emperor Augustus, and I have 
mentioned Rose’s dissertation thereon. The medal figured by 
this writer was also, under the same supposition, described and 
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figured by Prof. Agnethler, of Halle (Schulzisches Munz-Cabi- 
net, Halle, 1750-52, 4 0 ), and again by Dr. Moehsen, of Berlin 
{Loc. cit., I, pp. 257-280). 
Moehsen, however, describes and figures two other “ Camelio” 
medals about whose real attribution he had a correct impression. 
Since then it has been demonstrated by Armand (Les Medail- 
leurs Italiens Des Quinzieme Et Seizieme Siecles, 2 vols., Paris, 
1883, 8°, p. 115) that all the three are merely medals by Vittore 
Gambello, a Venetian die cutter at the commencement of the 
Sixteenth Century, who Latinized himself as Camelius, -as he 
indeed states upon the obverse of one of the medals, which he 
executed in honor of himself. 
It is, perhaps, not to be regretted that there exists no medal 
of the ancient Camelius, as, though a botanist, he must have 
been but a poor one, and unacquainted with the medicinal vir- 
