Note 707 — Chapter XIX · FISH IN MYTHS, SYMBOLS, DIET, AND MEDICINE
Reading edition
It is with some surprise that we read of Galen being one of the original Deipnosophistæ (I. 2), and with more still that we find the omnivorous and omniscient Athenæus quoting but once from this most prolific author, and that a passage which lays down, let us trust from the experience of his patients, that Falernian wine over twenty years old causes headaches.