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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Credit: The life of Asclepiades, the celebrated founder of the Asclepiadic sect in phisic ... / From the Italian. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cultivated, and a fimplicity of living abhorred ; efpecially if fuch a city is extremely populous and opulent, as Rome was in thofe days, per¬ haps, to an excefs ; and, above all, confidering that the riches of the commerce of mankind, cen¬ tering in that city, were incomparably greater, and more common then than in the more modern ages, or nearer our own times. Befides which, the fees of phificians were then even more exorbitant than they are at prefent, as may be gathered from the complaints of Pliny, and the teftimonies of the antients. Nor is it impoffible, that Afclepiades being beloved and efleemed, as he was, at Rome, by the moft confiderable perfonages, might, to free himfelf from the inconveniences of alienfhip, have obtained the Roman denization, or, as it was then called, the rights or immunities, of the §uirite$9 as, about an hundred years before, had been granted to Archagathus, who was the firft Greek phifician that had reforted to Rome. In this fuppofition, it mud be thought, that the Roman name, or adjundls, he took, are funk into oblivion. On the other hand again, there is no manner of violence offered to probability, in the other fuppofition, that fince there is no trace to be found of his having ufed a Roman name, nor nothing of the t#ga9 to be feen in his ftatue, he might retain his quality of alien, without any dread