Note 354 — Chapter IV · CELSUS: MELA: MISCELLANEOUS LEARNING
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His language (loc. cit.) pointedly suggests the parallel between the “ruffian” vivisectionist and the “ruffian” robber with violence: “ita mortui demum praecordia et uiscus omne in conspectum latrocinantis medici dari,” and “interdum enim gladiatorem in arena uel militem in acie uel uiatorem a latronibus exceptum sic uolnerari ut eius interior aliqua pars aperiatur, et in alio alia.”