| Pliny the Elder, Natural History (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Plin. Nat.]. | ||
| <<Plin. Nat. 21.108 | Plin. Nat. 21.109 (Latin) | >>Plin. Nat. 22.1 |
As we have occasion to make use of Greek names very fre- quently when speaking of weights and measures, [Note] 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 drachmmæ. 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, [Note] M. Varro, [Note] Antias, [Note] Cæpio, [Note] Vestinus, [Note] Vibius Rufus, [Note] Hyginus, [Note] Pompo- nius Mela, [Note] Pompeius Lennæus, [Note] Cornelius Celsus, [Note] Calpurnius Bassus, [Note] C. Valgius, [Note] Licinius Macer, [Note] Sextius Niger [Note] who wrote in Greek, Julius Bassus [Note] who wrote in Greek, Autonius Castor. [Note]
Foreign Authors Quoted.—Theophrastus, [Note] Democritus, [Note] Orpheus, [Note] Pythagoras, [Note] Mago, [Note] Menander [Note] who wrote the Biochresta, Nicander, [Note] Homer, Hesiod, [Note] Musmæus, [Note] Sophocles, [Note] Anaxilaüs. [Note]
Medical Authors Quoted.—Mnesitheus [Note] who wrote on Chaplets, Callimachus [Note] who wrote on Chaplets, Phanias [Note] the physician, Simus, [Note] Timaristus, [Note] Hippocrates, [Note] Chrysippus, [Note] Diocles, [Note] Ophelion, [Note] Hieraclides, [Note] Hicesius, [Note] Dionysius, [Note] Apollodorus [Note] of Citium, Apollodorus [Note] of Tarentum, Praxagoras, [Note] Plistonicus, [Note] Medius, [Note] Dieuches, [Note] Cleophantus, [Note] Philistio, [Note] Asclepiades, [Note] Crateaus, [Note] Petronius Diodotus, [Note] Iollas, [Note] Erasistratus, [Note] Diagoras, [Note] Andreas, [Note] Mnesides, [Note] Epicharmus, [Note] Da- mion, [Note] Dalion, [Note] Sosimenes, [Note] Tlepolemus, [Note] Metrodorus, [Note] Solo, [Note] Lyeus, [Note] Olympias [Note] of Thebes, Phlilinus, [Note] Petrichus [Note] Micton, [Note] Glaucias, [Note] Xenocrates. [Note]
| Pliny the Elder, Natural History (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Plin. Nat.]. | ||
| <<Plin. Nat. 21.108 | Plin. Nat. 21.109 (Latin) | >>Plin. Nat. 22.1 |
