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And he regards himself as a second AEsculapius, and has written a book on medicine in verse, which Geta, Caesar's murdered brother, always had about him, for he regarded the physicians here as mere bunglers. He is as rich as the Alabarch, and riding in his coach is Galenus, for whom Caesar sent. What can that girl want of him?"
This perfume brings dreams, but no less surely induces fever. Have you no other room at hand where the air is purer?" An eager "Yes," in many voices was the reply; and Diodoros was forthwith transferred into a small cubicle adjoining. While he was being moved, Galenus went from bed to bed, questioning the chief physician and the patients.
A flash of enthusiasm sparkled in Melissa's eye, but Galenus did not heed it; he briefly bade her farewell and turned away to devote himself to other patients. "There is one, at any rate," thought she, as she looked after the physician, "who will pray and sacrifice for that unhappy man. Diodoros will not forbid it, I am sure." She turned to Andreas and desired him to take her to her lover.
The thought that Galenus perhaps was right, and that of Caracalla's myriad subjects she might be the only one who would do so much for his sake, strengthened her resolve. The chief temple of Asklepios, whom the Egyptians called Imhotep, was at the Serapeum. Imhotep was the son of Ptah, who, at Alexandria, was merged in Serapis.
But who besides herself was praying for the hated sovereign who had at his command the costliest and rarest gifts of fortune, all poisoned by bitter anguish of mind and body? The world thought only of the sufferings he had inflicted on others; no one dreamed of the pangs he had to endure no one but herself, to whom Galenus had spoken of them.
"He might have made good the old saying of 'dat Galenus opes, had he lived in a place that could have afforded it. But his indulgence and liberality to his children, especially in their travels, two of his sons in divers countries, and two of his daughters in France, spent him more than a little.
But who besides herself was praying for the hated sovereign who had at his command the costliest and rarest gifts of fortune, all poisoned by bitter anguish of mind and body? The world thought only of the sufferings he had inflicted on others; no one dreamed of the pangs he had to endure no one but herself, to whom Galenus had spoken of them.
For he is in Caesar's train, and it would be vain to try to speak with him to-day or to-morrow." "But the journey through the town will do the sufferer a mischief." "He will be carried in a litter." "But even that is not good for him. Perfect quiet, Ptolemaeus said, was the best medicine." "But Galenus has even better remedies at hand," was the reply.
He knew that it was not to the great Galenus, but to the wealthy Serenus Samonicus, that she had spoken; for the physician's noble and thoughtful features were familiar to him from medals, statues, and busts. He had seen Samonicus, too, at Antioch, and held his medical lore, as expressed in verse, very cheap. How worthless would this man's help be!
I would rather endure the worst than this dreadful anxiety." So Andreas acknowledged that the youth was in a bad way, but that Ptolemaeus, himself well-skilled, hoped to cure him if his greater colleague Galenus would aid him. "And it is to secure his assistance, then," Melissa went on, "that the leech would have him carried to the Serapeum?" "Yes, my child.
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