Note 706 — Chapter XIX · FISH IN MYTHS, SYMBOLS, DIET, AND MEDICINE

For a list of practitioners, medical authors, and quacks before Pliny, and the enormous fees sometimes paid them, see N. H., XXIX. 1, 7. Not inappropriate, and probably not infrequent, when we read of their number and their disagreements, was the epitaph—Turba se medicorum perisse. This attribution of death to too many doctors is accredited to Hadrian, but is probably a Latin adaptation of Menander’s πολλῶν ἰατρῶν εἴσοδος μ’ ἀπώλεσεν.