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6 Aegyptus 37 (1957), pp. 32-40. The quotations immediately below
appear on pp. 36 and 32, respectively.
7 It would be interesting, for example, to know more about the training and practices of the tarpbv xal duvypaea xca dotyriv pywv tat-c
ptxijC xal cpthXodocpiag, 8v dv*ypacav tacrptxiwv no trLcov 0mpov svcat
(TAM II, 910 - IGRR III, 733). "No system for licensing medical
practice existed in classical antiquity.... The point is a commonplace in
writings about ancient medicine. " - L. Cohn - Haft, The Public
Physicians of Ancient Greece, Northampton, Massachusetts,
(1956) p. 17. In 362 A.D. the Emperor Julian ordered an end to teaching
by unauthorized persons: Cod. Just. 10.53.7, quoted in note 10,
below.
8 Cf. the parody in Lucian, Eunuch, esp. 2-3: btxadtai yqpopobovse dqdav o c aptdoot xait pedpi1taTot xat doo raoto Tv Av Ti
Oxhet e aWVlrtoga"OV V-t abfdUaa a
7610e... sE b' 'no0av6vtog ac6tv ttvo- cXov 4vtxOdt
boxt Lacoevaa tcL p i -tGv dLpCdfOrv. Cf. also the selection of public physicians by the d e m o s of classical Athens, summarized and commented
on by Cohn-Haft, op.cit. pp. 56-58.
Eunapius, Vitae sophistarum 10.3.8-9: Tqc btaboXiic -5Iv it&
Toto X6yots itXeoveXsCq&Uv. RapayyXXout dL v b rw XPa p tEt t'i
doytivxqg oxolX xIt. CoXXot XEspo'ovov'rat b'E bOXy=0dV -
TEg r Mdatc xpCbe6v Ilpoatpedt6L te xac 'HpatLedrwv xtX. (Professor
Frank Frost helpfully called my attention to this example of do k im as i a).
10The relevant texts are:
Digest 50.4.11.3 (Modestinus), reprobari posse medicum a
re publica quamvis semel probatus sit, divus Magnus
Antoninus cum patre rescripsit; cf. Cod. Just. 10.53.2
(Gordian), grammaticos seu oratores decreto ordinis
probatos... denuo ab eodem ordine reprobari posse.
Digest 50.9.1 (Ulpian), medicorum intra numorum praefinitum constituendorum arbitrium non praesidi provinciae commissum est, sed ordini et possessoribus
cuiusque civitatis, ut certi de probitate morum et
peritia artis eligant ipsi quibus se liberosque suos
in aegritudine corporum committant; cf. Cod. Just
10.53.7 -Cod. Theod. 13.3.5 (362 A.D.), magistros studiOrum doctoresque excellere oportet moribus primum,
deinde facundia... iubeo quisque docere vult non
repente nec temere prosiliat ad hoc munus, sed iud
