[489] Thus, for example, the ingredients in the collyrium Thalasseros, as given by Paulus Ægineta, are “calamine, 8 ounces; verdigris, 2 ounces; Indian ink, 8 ounces; white pepper, 4 ounces; median juice, 1 ounce; opobalsam, 2 ounces; and gum, 6 ounces.”—Ibid. vol. iii. p. 554.
[490] Kühn’s edit. of Galen, vol. xii. pp. 786 and 787.
[491] Commentar. in App. vi. 31. De Simplic. Med. ix. 39. Dr. Adams' Paulus Ægineta, vol. iii. p. 420. Plautus, in his Mostellaria (Act i. scene iii. v. 106), enumerates in the same line the Cerussa and Melinum as among the number of the cosmetic paints used at the toilets of the Roman ladies:—
Non isthanc aetatem oportet pigmentum ullum attingere
Neque cerussam, neque melinum, neque ullam aliam offuciam.
[492] See Duchelais’ Observations, p. 75; Tochon’s Dissertation, pp. 26 and 64; Maffer’s Museum Veronense, p. 135; Johanneau in Melanges d’Archeologie, p. 177; for accounts of stamps inscribed with the legend Diamysus ad Veteres Cicatrices.
[493] Medicinalium Collectorum, lib. xiii. p. 499.
[494] Tetrabiblos, Sermo iii. cap. 37, p. 382.
[495] Galen defines Cicatrices and Albugo of the eye as follows:—“Cicatrix appellatur ubi nigro oculi ex alto ulcere membranae crassities supervenit, ut color albior apparet. Albugo nihil a cicatrice differt, nisi quod ex ulcere major cicatrix simul et crassior in iride nascitur.”—Kühn’s Edit. vol. xiii. p. 775.
[496] See Tetrabiblos, Sermo iii. cap. 40, 37.