A History of Magic and Experimental Science, Volume 1 (of 2) / During the First Thirteen Centuries of Our Era

by Lynn Thorndike

[2546] Brehaut (1912), p. 34.

[2547] Migne, PL 82, 73, “Opus de origine quarumdam rerum, ex veteris lectionis recordatione collectum, atque ita in quibusdam locis adnotatum, sicut exstat conscriptum stylo maiorum.”

[2548] See, for example, Etymol., VIII, 7, 3, “Vates a vi mentis appellatos, Varro auctor est.”

[2549] Etymol., XX, 2, 37.

[2550] Cassiodorus, however, urged the monks of the sixth century who cared for the sick to read Hippocrates and Galen as well as Dioscorides and Caelius Aurelianus; Brehaut (1912), p. 87, note, citing PL 70, 1146, in the De instit. divin. litterarum.

[2551] Etymol., XII, 4, 6 and 6, 34.

[2552] Ibid., XII, 4, 12.

[2553] Ibid., XII, 6, 56.

[2554] Ibid., XVII, 7, 17 and 9, 36; XIX, 17, 8.

[2555] Ibid., XVII, 9, 85.