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δυῶν ταλάντων. Apart from the humour of the rapid increase in a fashionable physician's fees, the story is interesting as one of the earliest accounts of state endowments for medical science. (Cf. Mahaffy, S. L. pp. 290 seq.) ‘Healthier than Croton’ was a Greek proverb, P. G. ii. 778.

ἐγένετο κτλ. Stein well suggests that, if these lines be genuine, they are a subsequent addition; but they read like the comment of a pedantic scholiast.

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