Pharmacopōla
(
φαρμακοπώλης). A vender of medicines (
φάρμακα), described by Cato and Cicero as frequenting the
market-places and haranguing the people on the merits of their nostrums like our modern
travelling quacks. See Cato
ap.
Gell. i.5.3, and
Pro Cluent. 14, with
Hor. Sat. i. 2, 1.