vegetarianism of the Pythagoreans and others.
_Nicander_ of Colophon, an Alexandrian didactic poet. The [Greek:
theriaka] survives, is over 1,000 lines long, and deals with the bites
of wild beasts.
_Plato._ The words are not actually found in Plato's extant works;
Apuleius is probably slightly misquoting Timaeus 59_c_.
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and voluminous of Roman authors.
_an image of Mercury._ Clearly the reference is to some such practice
as that of 'screeing' in the ink-pool. Cp. Kinglake, Eothen, chap. 18.
_Cato_ (the famous Marcus Cato, see chap. 17, note) was priest of
Apollo and received offerings to the god.