[2192] Callistenes the physician is the person supposed to be alluded to. Lucullus did not seem to be of opinion that a man “must be a fool or a physician at forty.”
[2193] “Ut in quâ homo alius exsiliret ex homine.” The true meaning of this it seems impossible, with certainty, to ascertain: though a more indelicate one than that give might be easily suggested.
[2194] On the contrary, some authorities say it is apt to cause dimness of sight.
[2195] See Ovid, Met. ix. 273, et seq.
[2196] Much more probably, because they were considered to be significant of anything but seriousness and attention.
[2197] Exemplified in the case of the Egyptians, Herodotus says.
[2198] The remedy would seem to be worse than the evil.
[2199] See end of B. vii.
[2200] In B. viii. c. 58.
[2201] A knot tied very hard, and in which no ends were to be seen.