The medicine and doctors of Horace / by Eugene F. Cordell.

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[1901?]
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Credit: The medicine and doctors of Horace / by Eugene F. Cordell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [3381 my liver [because his dear friend Fuscus Aristius would not take the hint, when he was tormented by the bore on the Via Sacra]. Exucta uti medulla et aridum jecur Amoris esset poculurn, that they [the witches] might have a love-filter from the parched marrow and dried liver [of the boy]. At Od. IV, 1, 12, the poet advises Venus to seek Paulus Maxi- mus, if she desires to inflame a suitable liver: si torrere jecur quceris idoneum. In'Od. Ill, 4, 77, nec Tityi jecur Relinquit ales, the vulture feeds continually on the liver of Tityus [the giant, who had attempted violence upon Latona]. And finally, we find this mention of the bile in Sat. II, 2, 75: Dulcia se in bilem vertent, stomachoque tumultum Lenta feret pituita, [339] which Martin translates— what tasted so sweet Will be turned into bile, and ferment, not digest, in Your stomach, exciting a tumult intestine. The spleen is not once mentioned, and with Horace it was to vent the bile, not the spleen. Cor is used for heart or stomach, prcecordia for heart, chest or intestines. Ilia is also used in the last-named sig- nification. Vitio tumidum cor, °° heart swollen with vice; tetigisse cor querela, to move the heart with complaint; corde treniit,^ trembles in her heart; in cor trajecto dolore, the pain being transferred to the stomach. Ilia rhomU, °° the entrails of a turbot; 0 dura messorum ilia,'' said of those who eat garlic; ducere ilia, '' to become broken-winded. Humana exta is human viscera. Tenia spiritu prcecordia, °* my chest strained with gasping ; condita cum verax aperit prcecordia [238] 66Epod. V, 37. Sat. II, 3, 28. «3De Arte Poet., 186 [239] 56 Sat. II, 3, 313. «<> Sat. II, 8, 30. 6-< Epod. I, 18, 3.5. De Arte Poet., !)S. «' Epist. Ill, 3, 4. 68 0d. I, 23, 8. f'iEpist. I, 1, 9.