Note 193 — Chapter VIII
Reading edition
Cf. Lib. de Virtutibus et Laudibus, by Ægidius, head physician to Philip Augustus of France, in which occur the following verses:
Urbs Phœbo sacrata, Minervæ sedula nutrix, Fons physicæ, pugil eucrasiæ, cultrix medicinæ, Assecla Naturæ, vitæ paranympha, salutis Promula fida; magis Lachesis soror, Atropos hostis. Morbi pernicies, gravis adversaria mortis.
quoted in the appendix, p. xxxii, to S. de Renzi's, Storia Documentata della Scuola Medica di Salerno, Naples, 1857.