Strabo, Geography, Horace Leonard Jones (Translator), 12.8.20

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[20] Between Laodiceia and Carura is a temple of Men Carus, as it is called, which is held in remarkable veneration. In my own time a great Herophileian¹ school of medicine has been established by Zeuxis, and afterwards carried on by Alexander Philalethes,² just as in the time of our fathers the Erasistrateian school³ was established by Hicesius, although at the present time the case is not at all the same as it used to be.⁴

Geography. Strabo. Horace Leonard Jones (Translator). London. 1924-1929.

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Geography (Books 6-14) (English) (Strabo. The Geography of Strabo, Vols. 3-6. Jones, Horace Leonard, translator. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd., 1924-1929 (printing).)

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Γεωγραφικά Perseus (Strabo. Strabonis Geographica, Vols. 1-3. Meineke, August, editor. Leipzig: Teubner. 1877.) — 12.8.20 focus

[20] μεταξὺ δὲ τῆς Λαοδικείας καὶ τῶν Καρούρων ἱερὸν ἔστι Μηνὸς Κάρου καλούμενον τιμώμενον ἀξιολόγως. συνέστη δὲ καθʼ ἡμᾶς διδασκαλεῖον Ἡροφιλείων ἰατρῶν μέγα ὑπὸ Ζεύξιδος, καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα Ἀλεξάνδρου τοῦ Φιλαλήθους, καθάπερ ἐπὶ τῶν πατέρων τῶν ἡμετέρων ἐν Σμύρνῃ τὸ τῶν Ἐρασιστρατείων ὑπὸ Ἱκεσίου· νῦν δὲ οὐχ ὁμοίως ἔτι συμμένει.

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Geography Perseus (Strabo. The Geography of Strabo, Vols. 1-3. Hamilton, Hans Claude, translator; Falconer, William, translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854-1857.) — 12.8.20 focus

[20] Between Laodiceia and Carura is a temple of Mén Carus, which is held in great veneration. In our time there was a large Herophilian¹ school of medicine under the direction of Zeuxis,² and afterwards of Alexander Philalethes, as in the time of our ancestors there was, at Smyrna, a school of the disciples of Erasistratus under the conduct of Hicesius, At present there is nothing of this kind.

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1. Herophilus was one of the greatest physicians of antiquity. He was born at Chalcedon in Bithynia, and lived at Alexandria under Ptolemy I, who reigned 323-285 B.C. His specialty was dissection; and he was the author of several works, of which only fragments remain.

2. Alexander of Laodiceia; author of medical works of which only fragments remain.

3. Erasistratus, the celebrated physician and anatomist, was born in the island of Ceos and flourished 300-260 B.C.

4. The Greek for this last clause is obscure and probably corrupt. Strabo means either that schools like the two mentioned “no longer arise” or that one of the two schools mentioned (more probably the latter) “no longer flourishes the same as before.” To ensure the latter thought Meineke (from conj. of Corais) emends the Greek text.

Strabo Geography 12.8.20

Horace Leonard Jones (Translator)

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