In the siege of Auximum, he first labored to
demolish an old aqueduct, and then cast into the stream, 1.
dead bodies; 2. mischievous herbs; and 3. quicklime. (says
Procopius, l. ii. c. 29) by the ancients; by the moderns
Yet both words are used as synonymous in Galen, Dioscorides, and Lucian, (Hen. Steph. Thesaur. Ling. Graec. tom. iii. p. 748.)