His rival Aëtius accused him of high treason before Placidia.
The victory of Aëtius over the Huns in the plains of Chalons concerns us a good deal more.
When the incision of a fistula of the gums and the use of appropriate remedies are not sufficient for curing it, Ætius advises the extraction of the diseased tooth, from which the fistula has its origin.
The nutrition of the teeth is understood by Ætius in the following way: The nourishment which reaches the dental nerves is not entirely assimilated by them; these only appropriate the liquid or soft part and reject the drier part.
The work of Adamantius from which Ætius has taken the above-mentioned chapters is lost to us.
In this great composition of Ætius dental diseases are treated of in Chapters XXVII to XXXV of Sermo IV, Tetrabiblos II; and the two Greek titles above referred to are the titles of Chapters XXVII and XXXI.
Marmontel brought a vein of sentimentalism, and Helvétius a vein of cynical formalism.
Helvétius published that memorable book in which he was thought to have told all the world its own secret.
Helvétius will have to reproach himself with all the restraints that are now sure to be imposed on the few men of lofty genius who still are left to us, whose destiny was to enlighten their fellows, and to spread truth over the earth.
Not that Menœtius was king of the Opuntii, but Ajax the Locrian, who, according to report, was born at Narycus.
But him again the brave son of Menœtius addressed: "How then will these things turn out?
O my friend, Menœtius did assuredly thus command thee on that day when he sent thee from Phthia to Agamemnon.
I uttered on that day, encouraging the hero Menœtius in our halls; for I said that I would bring back his illustrious son to Opus, having wasted Troy, and obtained a share of the spoil.
Him first the gallant son of Menœtius addressed: "Why dost thou call me, Achilles, and what need hast thou of me?
Too surely now the valiant son of Menœtius is dead,--obstinate one!
There is no doubt that Aëtius was a Christian, for he mentions Christian mysteries, and appeals to the name of the Saviour and the martyrs.
Two other names of Greek women physicians we have, Origenia and Aspasia, the former mentioned by Galen, the latter by Aëtius in his "Tetrabiblion.
What Aëtius has consists mainly of quotations from previous authors, many of whom he had evidently read with great care.
Aëtius himself announces that he had prepared a special work on surgery, but this is lost.
Others before Aëtius had suggested the connection between hypertrophy of the clitoris and certain exaggerated manifestations of the sexual instinct, and the development of vicious sexual habits.
Naturally enough, this exaggerated estimation was followed by a reaction, in which Aëtius came to be valued at much less than he deserved.
With regard to goitre, Aëtius has some interesting details.
Aëtius seems to have had as thoroughly scientific an interest in certain phases of chemistry apart from medicine as any educated physician of the modern time might have.
It is surprising how much Aëtius has with regard to such nasal affections as polyps and ulcers and bleedings from the nose.
It is Godwin's favourite theme, and he carries it even further than Holbach and Helvétius had done.
It would be a fascinating but too protracted study to follow this faith in the perfectibility of mankind to its final enthusiasms of prophecy, and to trace it to its origins in the speculations of Helvétius and Holbach, of Priestley and Price.
Like Helvétius he perceived the advantages which an unpopular philosopher may derive from posthumous publication.
The child, as Helvétius delighted to point out, will do that for a coral or a doll which he will do at a mature age for a title or a sceptre.
Helvétius had been Godwin's chief precursor in this opinion.
Crates the grammarian was a native of this place, and Panætius is said to have been his disciple.
The river which flows through the country is called Bætius by Ptolemy.
There have been many remarkable persons, natives of Rhodes, both generals and athletæ, among whom were the ancestors of Panætius the philosopher.
Montesquieu caught and held the ear of the town by The Spirit of Laws (1748), and Helvétius was acute enough to perceive that speculation upon society would be the great durable interest of his time.
The only question for us, attempting to study the history of opinion, is what Helvétius meant by his paradoxes, and how they came into his mind.
Helvétius intended that it should be this, and accordingly he stuffed it with stories and anecdotes.
Why did Bentham raise upon it a fabric of such value to mankind, while Helvétius covered it with useless paradox?
Without any gain in clearness or definiteness or firmness, the reader is deliberately misled towards a form that is exactly the opposite of that which Helvétius desired him to accept.
Hume, however, tells a story to the effect that Helvétius tried to dissuade Montesquieu from publishing his great book, as being altogether unworthy of his previous reputation.
But in the mouth of Helvétius it was a plea for considerateness, for indulgence, and, above all, it was meant for an inducement to patience and sustained endeavour in all dealings with masses of men in society.
Helvétius had not the art of sustaining or animating it.
It was the stringent proceedings against his book that brought to Helvétius both vogue with the public and sympathy from the Encyclopædic circle.
He wrote to Helvétius that he had heard of him as a man of the greatest probity and honour in France, and that to Helvétius, therefore, he would trust himself.
Langres fell, and [AE]tius struck no stroke to relieve it.
The historians, however, suffer one or two important facts to appear, which prevent us from believing that [AE]tius and Theodoric obtained a victory over Attila on the present occasion.
The character of [AE]tius is represented by his panegyrists on the present occasion (probably to screen him from the disgrace of defeat) in a very singular and not creditable point of view.
On the left of the line appeared the Roman eagles, under the command of [AE]tius in person.
Helvétius said that motives of personal temporal interest sufficed for the formation of a good society, provided they were "maniés avec adresse par un législateur habile.
It so happens, however, that Helvétius as an apostle of state intervention was not only not departing from Mandeville but was echoing him even as to language.
In his edition of The Fable of the Bees, however, he says, "I think we may conclude no more than that Helvétius had probably read The Fable.
Eumæus the swineherd came up to Philœtius and made the same prayer.
Said Philœtius the cattleherd, 'May Zeus fulfil my wish and bring Odysseus back!
Within the house were Telemachus, and Eumæus the swineherd and Philœtius the cattleherd.
And now he directed Telemachus and Eumæus and Philœtius to cast their spears.
And he charged the cattleherd Philœtius to bar the gates of the courtyard.
Philœtius the cattle-herd, and Melanthius the evil goatherd, went amongst them, handing them bread and meat and wine.
Helvétius followed his exploration of the composition of the human mind, by a treatise on the training proper for the intellectual and moral faculties.
It has been said that Rousseau founds all morality upon personal interest, perhaps even more specially than Helvétius himself.
Helvétius had said, "All becomes legitimate and even virtuous on behalf of the public safety.
Aëtius said that menstrual changes take place during gestation; in more modern times, Buffon was of the same opinion.
These authors are sufficiently confuted by Panætius in his writings on Sokrates.
These remarks of Panætius must, however, be received with caution.
It was Aëtius who, as we have seen, in concert with the Visigothic king, fought the fight of civilisation against Hunnish barbarism on the Catalaunian battle-plain.
In his 'Divine Comedy' he places Boëtius in the Heaven of the Sun, together with the Fathers of the Church and the schoolmen.
If Albinus be criminal, I and the whole Senate are equally guilty, Boëtius reports himself to have said.
Boëtius was a thorough student of Greek philosophy, and formed the plan of translating all of Plato and Aristotle and reconciling their philosophies.
Mnesarchus was a pupil of Panætius and the teacher of Antiochus of Ascalon.
Panætius was a Rhodian, a pupil of Diogenes and Antipater, which last he succeeded as head of the Stoic school.
I wish Panætius could be here; he lived with Africanus; I would inquire of him which of his family the nephew of Africanus’s brother was like?
It is not large, but it is a golden book, and one, as Panætius tells Tubero, worth learning by heart.
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