Note 219 — FIRST SECTION.
Reading edition
Tibullus, bk. I. carm. 3. 27.
Nunc dea, nunc succurre mihi; nam posse mederi, Picta docet templis multa tabella tuis.
(Now goddess, even now help me; for that thou canst heal, many a painted tablet in thy temples shows). Gerning, “Reise durch Oestreich und Italien” (Journey through Austria and Italy). Vol. II. pp. 188-199.—St. Non, “Voyage pittoresque” (Picturesque Tour), Vol. II. pp. 170 sqq. Hardly anything is yet known as to the connection of the worship of Isis with the healing of disease, least of all with regard to establishments for the sick; for the particulars collected by Hundertmarck (“De principibus Diis Artis medicae tutelaribus” (Of the principal Gods that presided over the Medical Art). Leipzig 1735. 4to. and “Diss. de Artis Medicae incrementis per aegrotorum apud Veteres in Vias Publica et Templa expositionem” (Treatise on advances in medical Art due to the practice of the Ancients of exposing the sick in Public Ways and Temples). Leipzig 1739. 4to.) are quite insufficient.