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Quotation from The Histories by Tacitus
“he eventually told the doctors to form an opinion whether such cases of blindness and deformity could be remedied by human aid.”
The Histories, Book IV, ch. 81, trans. W. Hamilton Fyfe (1912)
At Alexandria a blind man and a man with a maimed hand beg Vespasian for healing; he first consults physicians.
Citation: "he eventually told the doctors to form an opinion whether such cases of blindness and deformity could be remedied by human aid." — Tacitus, The Histories, Book IV, ch. 81, trans. W. Hamilton Fyfe (1912). (id tacitus-the-histories-q8)
Portrait: Tacitus, Cornelius (50 - 116), Unknown author, Public domain.
