[668] Nothing is known of him.
[669] Or Iölaus, a native of Bithynia, who wrote a work on Materia Medica. He was probably a contemporary of Heraclides of Tarentum, in the third century B.C.
[670] A physician of Tarentum, who belonged to the Empiric sect. He wrote several medical works, and is highly commended by Galen. Only a few fragments of his writings remain.
[671] An historical and geographical writer, frequently quoted by Pliny. From the mention made of him in B. xxxvii. c. 2, it would appear that he flourished during the time of Pliny, or very shortly before.
[672] See end of B. ii.
[673] Fée remarks, that most of the unguents and perfumes of which Pliny here speaks would find but little favour at the present day.
[674] This does not appear to be exactly the case, for in the twenty-third Book of the Iliad, l. 186, we find “rose-scented” oil mentioned, indeed, Pliny himself alludes to it a little further on.
[675] “Nidorem.” This term was used in reference to the smell of burnt or roasted animal substances. It is not improbable that he alludes to the stench arising from the burnt sacrifices.
[676] The “Thuya articulata.” See c. [29] of the present Book.
[677] “Scrinium.” See B. vii. c. 30.