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him into the Eleusinian mysteries at the public expense,
crowned him with a golden crown, and distinguished him
in other ways.* The doctor EUENOR who, as is stated in
an inscription of the year 388 B.C.,t " being entrusted by
the people with the superintendence of the preparation of
medicines for the public Iatreion, for this purpose has
devoted a large sum out of his private means and has
treated many sick people gratuitously," was publicly praised
for this act and was honoured with a wreath and by having
conferred on him rights of citizenship. In the inscription
of Karpathos which WESCHERj ascribes to the end of the
4th or beginning of the 3rd century B.C. it is stated " that
in consideration that MENOKRITOS, the son of METRO-
DOROS of Samos in his position of public medical officer
has devoted himself for more than twenty years with zeal
and devotion to the care of the sick and has comported
himself with spotless integrity in his professional capacity
and in his private life ; in consideration further that during
a pestilence which broke out in the town and exposed to
great danger both natives and strangers, by his self-sacrifice
and frugality he contributed chiefly to restore health; in
consideration finally that instead of demanding payment
he willingly lived in indigence, saved many citizens in
dangerous diseases without receiving any reward, as would
have been only right and just, and that he never refused to
visit sick people living in the environs of the town—the
people of Brykontion have decided to honour him and to
adorn him with a golden wreath and to cause this decree
to be proclaimed publicly at the games of Asklepios and
further to confer on him the privilege of participation in all
festivals of the people of Brykontion and to erect to him a
marble statue in the temple of Neptune on which this
decree of the people extolling him, shall be inscribed."
* HIPPOKRATES op. cit. T.ix, 402.
t RHANGABE : Antiquites hellen. 1855, T. ii, No. 378.— E. CURTIUS in d.
Gott. gelehrt. Anz. 1856, No. 196 et seq.
| Revue Archeologique, Paris 1863, T. viii, p. 469.