As we have occasion to make use of Greek names very frequently when speaking of weights and measures,2382 I shall here subjoin, once for all, some explanation of them.

The Attic drachma—for it is generally the Attic reckoning that medical men employ—is much the same in weight as the silver denarius, and is equivalent to six oboli, the obolus being ten chalci; the cyathus is equal in weight to ten drachmæ. When the measure of an acetabulum is spoken of, it is the same as one fourth part of a hemina, or fifteen drachmæ in weight. The Greek mna, or, as we more generally call it, “mina,” equals one hundred Attic drachmæ in weight.

Summary.—Remedies, narratives, and observations, seven hundred and thirty.

Roman authors quoted.—Cato the Censor,2383 M. Varro,2384 Antias,2385 Cæpio,2386 Vestinus,2387 Vibius Rufus,2388 Hyginus,2389 Pomponius Mela,2390 Pompeius Lenæus,2391 Cornelius Celsus,2392 Calpurnius Bassus,2393 C. Valgius,2394 Licinius Macer,2395 Sextius Niger2396 who wrote in Greek, Julius Bassus2397 who wrote in Greek, Antonius Castor.2398

Foreign authors quoted.—Theophrastus,2399 Democritus,2400 Orpheus,2401 Pythagoras,2402 Mago,2403 Menander2404 who wrote the Biochresta, Nicander,2405 Homer, Hesiod,2406 Musæus,2407 Sophocles,2408 Anaxilaüs.2409

Medical authors quoted.—Mnesitheus2410 who wrote on Chaplets, Callimachus2411 who wrote on Chaplets, Phanias2412 the physician, Simus,2413 Timaristus,2414 Hippocrates,2415 Chrysippus,2416 Diocles,2417 Ophelion,2418 Heraclides,2419 Hicesius,2420 Dionysius,2421 Apollodorus2422 of Citium, Apollodorus2423 of Tarentum, Praxagoras,2424 Plistonicus,2425 Medius,2426 Dieuches,2427 Cleophantus,2428 Philistio,2429 Asclepiades,2430 Crateuas,2431 Petronius Diodotus,2432 Iollas,2433 Erasistratus,2434 Diagoras,2435 Andreas,2436 Mnesides,2437

Epicharmus,2438 Damion,2439 Dalion,2440 Sosimenes,2441 Tlepolemus,2442 Metrodorus,2443 Solo,2444 Lycus,2445 Olympias2446 of Thebes, Philinus,2447 Petrichus,2448 Micton,2449 Glaucias,2450 Xenocrates.2451