CHAPTER 35. _A shell for the making of a will._ The pun _testa ad

testamentum_ cannot be reproduced in English.

_seaweed for an ague._ Here again there is an untranslatable jest. _Alga_ (seaweed) suggests _algere_, 'to be cold,' one of the symptoms of the ague (_querceram_).

Aristotle.

_Eudemus_ of Rhodes, also a disciple of Aristotle.

_Lycon_ of Troas, a distinguished Peripatetic philosopher (floruit circa 272 B.C.).