Not that the Emperor went unpunished, for he himself probably suffered from _mentagra_. _Julian_[110] says of him, that when Romulus had invited to the feast of the Saturnalia all gods and Caesars, Tiberius appeared with the rest, “but when he turned round to take his seat, on his back could be seen in thousands scars, marks of burnings and scrapings, indurated weals and callosities, results of his excesses and wild lusts, cankers and scabs as it were burnt in”. Nay! according to _Suetonius_[111] his face itself bore _crebri et subtiles tumores_ (a multitude of minute swellings); and _Tacitus_[112] says of him: _Praegracilis et incurva proceritas, nudus capillo vertex, ulcerosa facies, ac plerumque medicaminibus interstincta_, (Tall and of a most graceful, albeit bowed, figure; the head bald, the face covered _with ulcers_, and generally patched with medical plasters). When _Galen_[113] mentions a τροχίσκος πρὸς ἕρπητας ὁ Τιβηρίου Καίσαρος (a lozenge for creeping eruptions, Tiberius Caesar’s), this does not in any way necessarily imply that this was prescribed as a remedy against eruptive symptoms on the _face_, for Tiberius, as we see from the passage quoted from _Julian_, suffered from eruptions on all the other parts of his body. Even if an affection of the face was intended, the expression ἕρπης (creeping eruption), in view of the marked tendency of the disease to spread to neighbouring parts, was not at all an unnatural one to be used; and we may say, speaking generally, that the view which holds the Greeks to have indicated by the word ἕρπης any one definite and distinct form of eruption is entirely mistaken. _Bertrandi_[114] indeed endeavours to show that _mentagra_ was a form of malignant tetter. That the application of plasters as a remedy in _mentagra_ was frequently recommended and employed is shown both by _Galen_ and _Aëtius_[115].