[405]. Athen. xiii. 51.
[406]. Anim. ad Athen. t. xii. p. 170.
[407]. When the case happened to be otherwise the remedies recommended by physicians were numerous, among which was the halimos, a prickly shrub found growing along the northern shores of Crete.—Dioscor. i. 120. Tournefort. i. 44.
[408]. Arist. Hist. An. vii. 10. Foës. Œconom. Hippoc. v. Τριχίασις.
[409]. Hist. An. vii. 11.
[410]. Dioscor. ii. 21.
[411]. Plat. Rep. v. t. vi. p. 236.—The desire of the philosopher was, that the people, or the state, should be regarded as the father of the child. Among our ancestors illegitimate children were denominated “sons of the people,” which was then thought equivalent to being the sons of nobody. Hence the following distich:—
Cui pater est populus, pater est sibi nullus et omnis,
Cui pater est populus, non habet ipse patrem.
Fortescue, Laud. Legg.