LIVER, in anatomy. See there, no 96.—Plato, and other of the ancients, fix the principle of love in the liver; whence the Latin proverb, Cogit amare jecur; and in this sense Horace frequently uses the word, as when he says, Si torrere jecur queris idoneum.—The Greeks, from its concave figure, called it πῦρ, "vaulted, suspended;" the Latins call it jecur, q. d. juxta cor, as being "near the heart." The French call it foie, from foyer, secus, "or fire-place;" agreeable to the doctrine of the ancients, who believed the blood to be boiled and prepared in it.—Erasistratus, at first, called it parenchyma, i. e. effusion, or mass of blood; and Hippocrates, by way of eminence, frequently calls it the hypochondrium.