The life of Asclepiades, the celebrated founder of the Asclepiadic sect in phisic ... / From the Italian.

  • Cocchi, Antonio, 1695-1758.
Date:
1762
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    only one of the Greek arts that had not yet been exercifed by the Roman gravity *. He then pre¬ tends to difcover the mifteries of it, by pro¬ ducing fome receipts from the Greek books •, and by this means aims at rendering the profelfors of that nation ufelefs •, againft whom he takes every occafion, no one can tell for why, to manifeft a very illiberal envy, and a defire of leflening, as much as he can, their authority. This is what he has particularly attempted, as to Afclepiades, who was dead many years before ; unlefs indeed it may be believed, that what he fays, being rare¬ ly original, or his own, he may have copied fome writer, cotemporary to that great man, and what is not uncommon, an envious and malignant detrader from his merit. But be that as it may, we have the obligation c to Pliny, for fome particularities, which, without him, might probably have remained unknown \ after which, from his teftimonials, it is our bu- finefs to draw juft confequences, and make dire diftindions. The third author who makes much mention of Afclepiades, and that for the moft part with difapprobation, is Calius Aurelianus, of the town of Sicca, in Africa, of whom we have a treatife of phific, in a rough and barbarous lati- nity s in which he profefiys himfelf little more * XXIX. Cap. i. §. 5, 8, p. 669. than