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to be used only as a counter-poison.
[819] XIV, 491; a good example of the power of suggestion.
[820] XIV, 498.
[821] XIV, 502.
[822] XIV, 505.
[823] XIV, 517.
[824] XIV, 567ff.
[825] I, 305-412.
[826] _Galen_ in PW.
[827] I, 325-6.
[828] XVII B, 212 and 834.
[829] Partic. 6, Kühn, XIV, 253.
[830] Kühn, XIV, 255.
[831] These passages all come from the 24th _Particula_ of Maimonides’
_Aphorisms_, which is devoted especially to marvels:—“Incipit particula
xxiiii continens aphorismos dependentes a miraculis repertis in libris
medicorum,” from an edition of the _Aphorisms_ dated 1489 and numbered
IA.28878 in the British Museum. The same section contains still other
marvels from the works of Galen.
[832] Kühn, VI, 832-5.
[833] VI, 833.
[834] XVI, 222-23.
[835] I, 53.
[836] _Coeli status_, or ἡ κατάστασις. X, 593-96, 625, 634, 645,
647-48, 658, 662, 685, 737, 759-60, 778, 829, etc.
[837] X, 688; XIII, 544; XIV, 285.
[838] XII, 356.
[839] XIV, 298.
[840] XI, 798.
[841] II, 26-28.
[842] XIX, 529-30.
[843] XIX, 534-73.
[844] IX, 794.
[845] IX, 901-2.
[846] IX, 904.
[847] IX, 908-10.
[848] IX, 913.
[849] IX, 922.
[850] IX, 935.
[851] Kühn, XIX, 22-345. Plutarch, _Opera_, ed. Didot, _De placitis
philosophorum_, pp. 1065-1114; in _Plutarch’s Miscellanies and Essays_,
English translation, 1889, III, 104-92. The wording of the two versions
differs somewhat and in Galen’s works it is divided simply into 37
chapters, whereas in Plutarch’s works it is divided into five books and
many more chapters.
[852] XIX, 320-21; _De plac. philos._, V, 1-2.
[853] XIX, 253; _De plac. philos._, I, 8.
[854] Kühn, XIX, 261-62; _De placitis philosophorum_, I, 28; “ἡ δὲ
εἱμαρμένη ἐστὶν αἰθέριον σῶμα. σπέρμα τῆστῶν πάντων γενέσεως.“
[855] XIX, 333.
[856] XIX, 274; _De plac. philos._, II, 19.
[857] XIX, 265; _De plac. philos._, II, 5.
[858] As much can hardly be said of our present day architects, whose
fantastic tin cornices projecting far out from the roofs of high
buildings and rows of stones poised horizontally in mid-air, with no
other visible support than a plate glass window beneath, remind one
forcibly and painfully of the deceits and levitations of magicians.
[859] _De architectura_, ed. F. Krohn, Leipzig, Teubner, 1912, VIII,
iii, 24. A recent English translation of Vitruvius is by M. H. Morgan,
Harvard University Press, 1914.
[860] VIII, iii, 16, 20-21, 24-5.
[861] III, i.
[862] V, Introduction, 3-4.
[863] V, vi, 1. The wording is that of Morgan’s translation.
[864] VI, i, 3-4, 9-10.
[865] IX, vi, 2-3, Morgan’s translation.
[866] III, Introduction, 3, ” ... There should be the greatest
indignation when, as often, good judges are flattered by the charm of
social entertainments into an approbation which is a mere pretence.”
[867] _Idem._
[868] VI, Introduction, 5.
[869] II, Introduction. Vitruvius continues, “But as for me, Emperor,
nature has not given me stature, age has marred my face, and my
strength is impaired by ill health. Therefore, since these advantages
fail me, I shall win your approval, as I hope, by the help of my
knowledge and my writings.”
[870] III, Introduction, 2.
[871] VII, Introduction, 1-10.
[872] VI, Introduction, 2. Also IX, Introduction, where authors are
declared superior to the victorious athletes in the Olympian, Pythian,
Isthmian, and Nemean games.
[873] VII, Introd., 11-14; IX, Introd.
[874] IX, Introd., 17.
[875] VII, Introd., 10.
[876] VIII, iii, 27.
[877] IX, vii, 7.
[878] IX, Introd.
[879] VII, v.
[880] VII, Introd., 18.
[881] V, i, 6-10.
[882] X, i, 4.
[883] X, vii.
[884] IX, viii.
[885] IX, viii, 2 and 4; X, vii, 4.
[886] NH, VII, 38.
[887] The work of Martin, _Recherches sur la vie et les ouvrages
d’Héron d’Alexandrie_, Paris, 1854, and the accounts of Hero in
histories of physics and mathematics such as those of Heller and
Cajori, must now be supplemented by the long article in Pauly and
Wissowa, _Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft_,
(1912), cols. 992-1080. A recent briefer summary in English is
the article by T. L. Heath, EB, 11th edition, XIII, 378. See also
Hammer-Jensen, _Ptolemaios und Heron_, in _Hermes_, XLVIII (1913), p.
224, _et seq._
The writings ascribed to Hero, hitherto scattered about in various
for the most part inaccessible editions and MSS, are now appearing in
a single Teubner edition, of which five vols. have appeared, 1899,
1900, 1903, 1912, 1914, including respectively, the _Pneumatics_ and
_Automatic Theater_, the _Mechanics_ and _Mirrors_, the _Metrics_ and
_Dioptra_, the _Definitions_ and geometrical remains, _Stereometrica_
and _De mensuris_ and _De geodaesia_. For the _Belopoiika_ or work on
military engines see C. Wescher, _Poliorcétique des Grecs_, Paris,
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