Medical Compositions

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under the very age of Emperor Valentinian.

In Book IX, Chapter IV.

The composition of Paccius Antiochus is contained in the book of Scribonius with such long digressions of useless words that it appears even from this that the booklet was not written in Latin by Scribonius, but was translated by someone who perhaps added some things of his own.

MARSILIO CAGNATI, "Various Observations," Book III, Chapter XVI.

The reading of Scribonius is not to be neglected, not only because Galen made mention of him so often and took many medications from him, but also because those things that Galen took are found to be more complete in Scribonius.

GASPAR BARTHIUS, "Adversaria," Book XXXVI, Chapter IV.

Those who assert that Scribonius wrote in Greek seem to have strayed from the truth to such an extent that they should change their opinion, warned even by his own letter to Julius Callistus. It is true that many things have been added to the Latin writer, which hardly anyone in his time would have provided. But that the work was written in Latin is easily demonstrated by the dedication to Callistus.

Book XLIX, Chapter XIX.

The letter of Scribonius Largus to Julius Callistus is ascribed with great ignorance to Cornelius Celsus.