An remedia nosse et ea conquirere magi potius esse quam medici, quam denique philosophi putas, qui illis non ad quaestum, sed ad suppetias usurus est? Veteres quidem medici etiam carmina remedia vulnerum norant, ut omnis vetustatis certissimus auctor Homerus docet, qui facit Ulixi de vulnere sanguinem profluentem sisti cantamine.
Do you think that to know and to collect cures marks someone as a magician rather than a doctor, or indeed a philosopher, if he is going to use them not for gain but to help others? Why, the doctors of old knew that even spells could cure wounds, as Homer, the most reliable authority of all antiquity, tells us when he makes a spell stanch the blood from Ulysses wound.
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