Note (25) — BOOK III.

25. Catapotia.) Most of the moderns translate this word pills. But our author does not limit their consistence nor form; for we find him sometimes ordering them to be diluted, sometimes of the consistence of sordes, and sometimes swallowed about the bigness of a bean, and at other times dry powders given in some kind of liquor. See lib. v. cap. 25.—Scribonius Largus defines a catapotium as a medicine, that is swallowed without being diluted, cap. 22. comp. 87. Upon which Rhodius will have them to be much the same with the bolusses now in use.