Edmund Chishull - Richard Mead - 1723-11-13

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Edmund Chishull

Edmund Chishull - Richard Mead - 1723-11-13

FINA IDUnique ID of the page ᵖ	15927
InstitutionName of Institution.
InventoryInventory number.
AuthorAuthor of the document.	Edmund Chishull
RecipientRecipient of the correspondence.	Richard Mead
Correspondence dateDate when the correspondence was written: day - month - year .	November 13, 1723
PlacePlace of publication of the book, composition of the document or institution.
Associated personsNames of Persons who are mentioned in the annotation.	William Sherard, William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire
LiteratureReference to literature.	Ainsworth 1719-17201, Nichols 1812-1815, vol. 1, pp. 281-22, Burnett 2020b, pp. 607, 615, 1026 n. 1893
KeywordNumismatic Keywords ᵖ	Smyrna , Magistrate , Greek
LanguageLanguage of the correspondence	English, Latin
External LinkLink to external information, e.g. Wikpedia ᵖ	https://archive.org/details/literaryanecdot02bentgoog/page/280/mode/2up

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'I am heartily glad to understand that we are like to have the happiness of seeing your Oration public. The medals are not yet in books. Some have taken them to be so many magistrates of Smyrna; but that they are philosophers and physicians, is luckily a discovery of my own. I hit upon the thought by observing, that Physicians are often cited with the addition of Ἡροφίλος and Ἐρασιςράτειος as by Erotian in voce Στράτων μὲν ὁ Ἐρασιςράτειος, Ζήνων δ' ὁ Ἡροφίλειος. After thisthat there was a school of each according to Strabo, l. xx Διδασκαλεῖον Ἡροφίλεος ἰατρῶν μίγα ὑπὸ Ξεύξιδος καθάπερ ..... ἐν Σμύρνη τὸ τῶν Ἑρασιςρατείων ὑπὸ Ἱκεσίος. Upon this foundation we are at no loss for the explication of the following medals.

1. Caput laureatum sine epigraphe
   Rev. ΣΜΥΡΝΑΙΩΝ ΞΕΥΞΙΣ: figura virilis sedens, manu dextra ad os levata: ante faciam κεραύνιον nota institutionis philosophiae.
2. Caput laureatum sine epigraphe
   Rev. ΣΜΥΡΝΑΙΩΝ ΙΚΕΣΙΟΣ: figura eadem. Vide Numismata Kempiana, p. 82.
3. Caput laureatum sine epigraphe
   Rev. ΣΜΥΡΝΑΙΩΝ ΕΥΚΛΗΣ: fig. eadem. ante faciem, αἰςερίσκος nota συμφονίας τῶν δεγματων, cum monogrammato urbis Smyrnae.
4. Caput laureatum sine epigraphe
   Rev. ΣΜΥΡΝΑΙΩΝ ΠΑΣΙΚΡΑΤΗΣ: fig. eadem, cum duplici monogrammate, Smyrnae urbis et sectae Herophilae uno, ac sectae Erasistrateae altero, i.e. EPA.
   Horum Ξεὺξις cum tota ipsius schola; i.e. τοῖς περὶ τὸν Ξεῦξιν, laudatur ab Erotiano in voce Καμμάρω. Hicesius a Plinio, l. xxvii. c. 4. ut non parvae auctoritatis medicus. Pasicrates Menodoro adjungitur in inscriptione Dousana. Menodorus vero Hicesio apud Athenaeum, l. iii. c. 9. Μηνοδῶρος ὁ Ἐρασιςράτειος Ἱκεσίος Φίλος.

Of these medals the first, third, and fourth, are now before me, with about twenty others of the same type and character. Being mistaken for unknown magistrates, they were esteemed the refuse of Dr. Sherard's medals. However, many of a fairer stamp and better preserved were by him reposited in the cabinet of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire; particularly an Ἱκεσιος, and if I mistake not, an Ἀλέξανδρος, being the other master mentioned by Strabo. I hope to be introduced by Dr. Sherard to the favour of consulting them in his Grace's rich collection. In the mean time these, Sir, with myself, are absolutely yours; and being obliged to be in town for waiting at Court on Friday, I will attend you with them at your house at what time you please to command me, by a line directed to, &c. E. Chishull.'

(Nichols 1812-1815, vol. 1, pp. 281-2; Burnett 2020b, pp. 607, 615)