Mr. Gough published in the _Archæologia_ a sketch of this stamp, which is copied into Pl. II., No. VI. Some wax impressions were taken of the stone, but the stone itself was (it is stated in the same volume of the _Gentleman’s Magazine_, 1778, p. 510) “lost out of a pocket that had a hole in it, and probably, instead of gracing a museum, has contributed its mite towards mending the roads.” The four sides of the stone contained the following series of inscriptions, the terminal and initial letters of three of the lines being wanting, and supplied in our copy below by italic letters:— 1. MJULSATYRIDIA LEPIDOSADASPR 2. MJULSATYRIDIASMI(_r_) (_n_)ESPOSTMPETLIPPIT 3. MJULSATYRIDIALI BANUADSUPPURAT 4. (_m_)JULSATYRIPENI CILLENEEXOVO The name of the oculist, M. JUL. SATYRUS—_M(arcus?) Jul(ius) Satyrus_—is sufficiently distinct, and occurs with each of the four legends of the stamp. When we analyse further the inscriptions on the four sides of the seal, they severally read as follows:— 1. M(_arci_) JUL_ii_ SATYRI DIALEPIDOS AD ASP_e_R_itudines_.—_Marcus Julius Satyrus’ Dialepidos or Copper collyrium for granulations of the eyelids._ The three first sides of this stamp have the special collyria inscribed upon them, beginning each with the letters DIA, from the Greek preposition δια, “with,” and here signifying “made with.”[505] The three principal ingredients in the three first inscriptions are all given, combined with this initial preposition δια, and under their Greek appellatives,—λεπιδος, σμυρνα and λιβανος—forming instances, among many others, of the anxiety of the ancient Roman oculists to invest their drugs with all the mysterious attraction and formality of a Greek name; just as some modern English physicians foolishly enough consider it still proper to write always the names of the medicines which they now prescribe in the language of the ancient Romans, thus, like their predecessors, attempting, in the exercise of their profession, to act upon that principle in the weakness of human nature which holds “omne ignotum pro mirifico.” I have already described (see Stamp No. II., p. 245) the composition of the collyrium termed _Dialepidos_, and the origin of the name of the inscription from the λεπιδες, or scales of the oxide of copper. 2. M. JUL. SATYRI DIASMI_rn_ES POST IMPETUM LIPPIT_udinis_.—_The Diasmyrnes or Myrrh collyrium of M. Jul. Satyrus, after the commencement of ophthalmy._