This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1910. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... Ciceronianus OR A Dialogue on the Best Style of Speaking Bulephorus: Whom do I see walking yonder in the most retired part of the porch? If I am not mistaken it is my old friend and fellow student, Nosoponus. Hypologus: Is this that Nosoponus who was once the most charming of all jolly companions, delightfully ruddy and stout, bubbling over with Loves and Graces? Bu.—The very one. Hyp.—Whence this new shape? More like to ghost he seems than man. Has he some disease? Bu.—Yes, a very serious one. Hyp.—What I pray? Not dropsy? Bu.—The ailment is deeper than the skin. Hyp.—It isn't that new kind of leprosy which people to-day flatter by the name of mange? Bu.—The infection is indeed deeper than that. Hyp.—It isn't the spitting malady? Bu.—The trouble is more deeply seated than in the lungs. Hyp.—It isn't jaundice? Bu.—It is something deeper than the liver. Hyp.—Perhaps a fever ravaging the veins and heart? Bu.—It is a fever, and yet not a fever, something burning deeper, advancing from the inmost recesses of the mind. But cease vainly divining. It is a new kind of disease. Hyp.—Has it then not yet a name? Bu.—Among the Romans, not yet. The Greeks call it Zelodulean. Hyp.—Has it come on recently? Or is it a trouble xpoviov.1 Bu.—For more than seven years the unfortunate man has been suffering. But we are observed. He seems to be turning his steps hither. You will find out better from him what the trouble is. I shall act the part of Davus; do you help the conversation along and take a part in the play. 1Of long standing. Hyp.—Indeed I would do it gladly, if I knew what you desired. Bu.—I desire very much to relieve my dear old friend of so serious a malady. Hyp.—.What. Are you skilled in medicine? Bu.—You know that there is a kind of madness that ...