Pluto, alarmed for the future of his own dominions, complained to Jupiter, and the Olympian ruler slew Æsculapius with a thunderbolt. Apollo was so incensed at this cruel judgment that he killed the Cyclops who had forged the thunderbolt. For this act of rebellion Apollo was banished from Olympia and spent nine years on earth, for some time as a shepherd in the service of the king of Thessaly. It was during this period that the story of his adventure with Daphne, told by Ovid, and from which the quotation on THE ARMS OF THE SOCIETY OF APOTHECARIES (italicised below) is taken, occurred. Ovid relates that Apollo, meeting Cupid, jeered at his child’s bows and arrows as mere playthings. In revenge Cupid forged two arrows, one of gold and the other of lead. The golden one he shot at Apollo, to excite desire; the leaden arrow, which repelled desire, was shot at Daphne. The legend ends by the nymph being metamorphosed into a laurel which Apollo thenceforth wore as a wreath. One of the incidents narrated by Ovid represents the god telling the nymph who he is. Dryden’s version makes him say: Perhaps thou knowest not my superior state And from that ignorance proceeds thy hate. A somewhat uncouth method of seeking to ingratiate himself with the reluctant lady. Among his attainments Apollo says: Invention medicina meum est, _Opiferque per orbem Dicor_, et herbam subjecta potentia nobis. Dryden versifies these lines thus: Medicine is mine, what herbs and simples grow In fields and forests, all their powers I know, And am the great physician called below. The arms of the Society of Apothecaries are thus described in Burke’s “Encyclopædia of Heraldry,” 1851: “In shield, Apollo, the inventor of physic, with his head radiant, holding in his left hand a bow, and in his right a serpent. About the shield a helm, thereupon a mantle, and for the crest, upon a wreath of their colours, a rhinoceros, supported by two unicorns, armed and ungulated. Upon a compartment to make the achievement complete, this motto: ‘Opiferque per orbem dicor.’” [Illustration: ARMS OF THE SOCIETY OF APOTHECARIES.] It was William Camden, the famous antiquary and “Clarenceux King at Arms” in James I.’s reign, who hunted out the middle of the above Latin quotation for the newly incorporated Society of Apothecaries. THE SONS OF ÆSCULAPIUS.