[780] He was an orator, who was accused of theft and extortion, and who, moreover, was said not to be a genuine Athenian citizen.
[781] The serpent was sacred to Aesculapius; several of these reptiles lived in the temple of the god.
[782] Iaso (from [Greek: iasthai], to heal) and Panacea (from [Greek: pan], everything, and [Greek: akeisthai], to cure) were daughters of Aesculapius.
[783] He has to see, examine, and taste pill, potion, urine … and worse.
[784] An apothecary's outfit.
[785] Tenos is one of the Cyclades, near Andros.
[786] A deme of Attica, where the strongest vinegar came from.
[787] The Scholiast says that this was an individual as poor as he was greedy, and on the watch for every opportunity to satisfy his voracity.—The comic poets often had nuts, figs and other petty dainties thrown to the audience. It was a fairly good way to secure the favour of a certain section of the public.
[788] The ancients used oil in large quantities, whether for rubbing themselves down after bathing or before their exercises in the palaestra, or for the different uses of domestic life. It was kept in a kind of tank, hollowed in the ground and covered with tiles or stones. The wine-sellers had similar tanks, but of larger size, for keeping their wine.
[789] This was what was styled the triple or complete sacrifice.