[497] Medicæ Artis Principes. De Collyriis, cap. 72 and 73, p. 665.
[498] Dr. Adams’ Translation, vol. i. p. 418.
[499] De Arta Medica, lib. ii. cap. vi. p. 175. Perhaps the medical idea of staining the cicatrices of the eyes was suggested by the circumstance, that the Romans, like the ancient Egyptians, occasionally had recourse to dyeing or staining their eyebrows in the decorations of the toilet. On the substances (calliblephara) used for this purpose, see Pliny, lib. xxiii. cap. 4, and lib. xxxv. cap. 16. Juvenal alludes to the practice in his Second Satire, v. 93:—
Ille supercilium madida fuligine tactum
Obliqua producit acu, pingitque trementes
Attollens oculos.
[500] See Medicæ Artis Principes. De Medicam. p. 280.
[501] In the Minutes of the Society of Antiquaries for 17th November 1757, the word is copied as DELICATA.
[502] Thus Nicolaus Myrepsus describes the “Collyrium nominatum Sol;” the “Collyrium Aster, hoc est stella;” the “Collyrium dictum Lumen.” See his Opus de Compositione Medicamentorum, sect. xxiv. cap. 2, 22, 3, etc. Trallianus describes the collyrium Phos, etc., p. 174. Aetius gives, p. 352, a formula for the collyrium Uranium. See also Oribasius, p. 50. Perhaps I ought to have stated earlier, that in quoting the works of Oribasius, Aetius, Myrepsus, Trallianus, Scribonius Largus, and Marcellus, I always refer, except when it is otherwise specified, to the writings of these authors as contained in Stephen’s collated edition of the “Medicæ Artis Principes post Hippocratem et Galenum” (Paris, 1567).
[503] De Simplic. Medicam. Kühn’s Edit. vol. xii. p. 152.