[479] Opobalsam, the “succus a plaga” of the Syrian balsam tree. See Pliny. lib. xii. c. 25.—Dioscorides, in describing its origin, effects, etc., specially recommends it as a detergent application in dimness of sight (quæ pupillis tenebras offundunt, exterget).—Lib. i. cap. xviii. p. 18.
[480] The inscription on the Daspich stone is “Q. Valleri Sexti Stactum ad Caligines Opobalsamatum.” Paulus Ægineta gives a special collyrium under the designation of “Collyrium from opobalsam”—Collyrium ex opobalsamo. See Dr. Adams’ Translation in the Sydenham Society Edition, vol. iii. p. 554. The opobalsam is a frequent ingredient in the various collyria described by Galen, Aetius, etc.
[481] Catalogue of Antiquities, Coins, etc., in the possession of the Society of Antiquaries of London, by Albert Way, Esq. 1847, p. 12.
[482] Archæologia, vol. ix. p. 227.
[483] For the purpose of explanation, I have changed the order of the sides, bringing forward as the second what Mr. Gough gives as the fourth side.
[484] Kühn’s Galen, vol. xii. p. 781.
[485] Sectio xxiv. De Collyriis, p. 662.
[486] Tetrabiblos, Sermo iii. cap. 110, p. 434.
[487] De Arte Medica, lib. ii. cap. v. p. 175.
[488] Dr. Adams’ Translation, vol. iii. p. 554; and vol. i. p. 421.