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 ? 140 A.D.

, who suffered from rheumatism, having prayed for a cure, dreamt that he was walking in the suburbs of the city, and was not a little comforted by a close application of fire: so much was this so that the result was little short of a cure.

About 137 A.D.

Whether arena, caelum, triticum are found in the plural, and incidentally of quadrigae, inimicitiae, and some other words, whether they are met with in the singular number.

1. I was a young man at Rome, before I migrated to Athens, and had a respite from attendance on masters and at lectures, 1 used to visit Cornelius Fronto for the pleasure of seeing him, and derived great advantage from his conversation, which was in the purest language and full of excellent information. And it was invariably the case that, as often as we saw him and heard his talk, we came away with our taste improved and our minds informed: as, for instance, was the case with *ha* discussion by him on one occasion of a question trivial in itself indeed yet not unconnected with the study of the Latin language.

2. For when a certain close acquaintance of his, a man of learning and a distinguished poet of the time, told us that he had been cured of a dropsy by the application of heated "sands," Fronto, bantering him, said: 253