[[1]] Anaxilas, Fr. 18 K.; Aristophanes, Plutus 883-5; Antiphanes, fr. 177 (Kock); cf. C. Bonner (1950), 4-5 and R. Kotansky (1991), 110.

[[2]] Pliny, Natural History 28.5.27.

[[3]] T. Priscianus, Additamenta XV.21-2 (=Euporista, ed. V. Rose, p. 276, 1894).

[[4]] Galen, De simplicium medicamentorum temperamentis ac facultatibus 10, 19 (XII, 207, ed. Kuhn). On digestive amulets, see C. Bonner (1950), 51-66.

[[5]] C. Bonner (1950), 67.

[[6]] On fever amulets, see R. Kotansky (1991), 133n.78, who lists the extant papyrus amulets and provides several references. Cf. R.W. Daniel & F. Maltomini (1990), 7-52 and (1992), 91-275. For an amulet perhaps aimed at throat inflammation, se e P.G.M. CXX (=Suppl. Mag. no. 1). On eye troubles, see C. Bonner (1950), 69-71, and R. Kotansky (1994), nos. 31 and 53; for sciatica, see Bonner, pp. 71-7; on gynecological amulets, see Bonner, pp. 79-94 and H. Philipp (1986); cf. Jean-Jac ques Aubert, "Threatened Wombs: Aspects of Ancient Uterine Magic," GRBS 30 (1989), 421-49. To see an image of a silver lamella against elephantiasis, Click here.

[[7]] Suppl. Mag. no. 76.

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