[554] See, for example, Adams’ Paulus Ægineta, vol. iii. pp. 551 and 555, where the collyria Diasmyrnum and Isotheon are directed “to be used with an egg”—(“Usus cum ovo est,” according to the Latin translation of Cornarius, p. 671, etc.) Celsus directs the Collyrium Philetis to be used “vel ex ovo, vel ex lacte.” Galen repeatedly employs the same expression in giving his directions about collyria, as in vol. xii. pp. 746, 747, 749, 754, etc.
[555] Med. Art. Princ. Synopsis, liber iii. p. 51.
[556] Kühn’s Edit. of Galen, vol. xiii. pp. 877 and 879.
[557] Ibid. vol. xii. p. 761.
[558] The same title or designation of ΑΝΙΚΗΤΟΣ (the unconquered) was assumed by some of the Indo-Greek kings of Bactria. Philosenus (who reigned in the east of Bactria), and Antialcides, Lysias, and Archebias (who reigned in the west), according to Grotefend’s classification, all appropriated this title to themselves. See Werlhof’s Handbuch der Griechischen Numismatik, pp. 72 and 73.
[559] The Unguentum Nardinum was one of the favourite ointments used by the Romans for anointing the hair previous to crowning it with the garland at their festive symposiums.—See Horace’s Carmina, lib. ii. carm. xi. “Assyriaque Nardo Potamus uncti.”
[560] Thus Plautus, in his Miles Gloriosus, act iii. sec. ii. v. 11, speaks of wine mixed and flavoured with the perfume of Nard—
Demisit Nardini unam amphoram cellarius.
Horace, in one of his odes addressed to Virgil (Carmina, lib. iv. c. 12), invites his brother poet to a drinking-party, provided Virgil will earn his wine by bringing some spikenard; and he declares that a small box of the perfume shall draw a whole cask of wine from the storehouses of Sulpicius.
Nardo vina merebere.