I.of or belonging to a physician or surgeon, medical (as adj. only ante- and post-class.; as subst. class.).
I. Adj.: “ars,” the healing art, medicine, Varr. L. L. 5, § 93 Müll.; Hyg. Fab. 274; Aug. Conf. 4, 3.—
II. Subst.: mĕdĭcīna , ae, f.
A. (Sc. ars.) The healing or medical art, medicine, surgery: “ut medicina (ars est) valetudinis,” Cic. Fin. 5, 6, 16; id. Off. 1, 42, 151: “medicina, quae ex observatione salubrium atque his contrariorum reperta est,” Quint. 2, 17, 9: tertiam esse partem medicinae, quae manu curet, i. e. surgery, Cels. prooem. 7: “medicinam excolere,” id. ib.: “exercere,” Cic. Clu. 63, 178: “facere,” Phaedr. 1, 14, 2: “factitare,” to practise, Quint. 7, 2, 26: “clarus medicinā,” Plin. 25, 2, 5, § 15.—
B. (Sc. officina.) The shop of a physician or surgeon; the booth in which a physician waited on his patients and vended his medicines (rare; “not in Cic.): in medicinis, in tonstrinis,” Plaut. Am. 4, 1, 6; cf.: veteres absolute dicebant pistrinam et sutrinam et medicinam, Don. Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 45 (the taberna of the physician is mentioned in Plin. 29, 1, 6, § 12).—
C. (Sc. res.) A remedy, medicine.
1. Lit.: “si medicus veniat, qui huic morbo facere medicinam potest,” i. e. heal, cure, Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 76: “accipere medicinam,” Cic. Att. 12, 21, 5.—
b. Transf. *
(α).
Like medicamentum, poison, Att. ap. Non. 20, 31 (Trag. Rel. v. 579 Rib.).—
(β).
The pruning of vines, Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 191.—
2. Trop., a remedy, relief, antidote (a favorite word of Cic.): “singulis medicinam consilii atque orationis meae afferam,” Cic. Cat. 2, 8, 17: “sed non egeo medicinā: me ipse consolor,” id. Lael. 3, 10: “sublevatio et medicina,” id. Rep. 2, 34, 59: “temporis,” id. Fam. 5, 16, 6: “doloris,” id. Ac. 1, 3: “laboris,” id. Fin. 5, 19, 54: “calamitatis,” id. Tusc. 3, 22, 54: “quae sanaret vitiosas partes rei publicae,” id. Att. 2, 1, 7: “crede mihi, non ulla tua'st medicina figurae,” i. e. no means of rendering beautiful, Prop. 1, 2, 7: “periculorum,” Cic. Sest. 23, 51: “malorum,” Ov. Tr. 5, 1, 33: “curae,” id. P. 1, 2, 43.—In plur.: “his quatuor causis totidem medicinae opponuntur,” Cic. de Or. 2, 83, 339.
