Note 55 — Chapter II · DANCING MANIA IN ITALY.
B. G. (Benjamin Guy) Babington translation
Aëtius, who wrote at the end of the sixth century, mentions six which occur in the older works. 1. ῥάγιον, 2. λύκος, 3. μυρμήκειον 4. κρανοκολάπτης, by others, κεφαλοκρούστης, 5. σκληροκέφαλον, and 6. σκωλήκιον. Tetrabl. IV. Serm. I. ch. 18. in Hen. Steph. Compare Dioscorid. Lib. VI. ch. 42. Matthiol. Commentar. in Dioscorid. p. 1447. Nicand. Theriac. V. 8. 715. 755. 654.