callimorphus

Updated: May 26, 2025

The only fault I have to find with him is that he inscribes his volumes with a solemnity rather disproportioned to the rank of their contents 'Parthian History, by Callimorphus, Surgeon of the 6th Pikemen, volume so-and-so. Ah, yes, and there is a lamentable preface, which closes with the remark that, since Asclepius is the son of Apollo, and Apollo director of the Muses and patron of all culture, it is very proper for a doctor to write history.

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