Gold Not Gold

Let the truly good things of medicine be praised,
Let the evils of nonsensical empiricism be laid bare.
Perhaps someone succeeded once, so as to be admired,
And later failed, so as to be laughed at.

A long discourse written in books,
And a new medicine, dissonant to the ancients,
Designed to look as if it possesses some boastfulness,
But in reality, it is human innovation.

These things you, Gwynne, have testified to,
And how the false-writer is refuted.
A cold grammarian, or a deficient philosopher,
Or a gold-drinking physician, is not trustworthy.

An epigram by the same.

Hephaestus pours wine into a golden bowl,
And inextinguishable laughter arose among all the gods.
Anthony works gold into a glass bowl,
And an inextinguishable disease arose among all men.
The former brought the gods and Zeus into the chamber;
The latter leads every mortal to his death.