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inflammatory ingredients of a surety, nor did they censure Patroclus, who
was in charge of the case.” “It was indeed,”
said he, “a strange potion for a man in that condition.”
“Not strange,” said I, “if you reflect that
the former Asclepiads made no use of our modern coddling1 medication of
diseases before the time of Herodicus. But Herodicus2 was a
trainer and became a valetudinarian, and blended
1 This coddling treatment of disease, which Plato affects to reprobate here, he recommends from the point of view of science in the Timaeus(89 C):διὸ παιδαγωγεῖν δεῖ διαίταις, etc. Cf. Euripides Orestes 883; and even in the Republic 459 C.
2 Cf. Protagoras 316 E, Phaedrus 227 D. To be distinguished from his namesake, the brother of Gorgias in Gorgias 448 B. Cf. Cope on Aristotle Rhet. i. 5, Wilamowitz-Kiessling, Phil. Unt. xv. p. 220, Juthner, Philostratus uber Gymnastik, p. 10.
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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