a viscous brown juice extracted from green olives. With this oil the ancient Athletes, when going to wrestle, anointed themselves; and when that gymnastic exercise was over, they rolled themselves in the sand, which, mixing with the oil and sweat on their bodies, constituted the *fragments* so highly esteemed in the cure of several diseases. This precious medicine was carefully scraped off the body of the Athlete with a kind of instrument something like a comb, which was called *fragilis*; and such was the demand for the scrapings, that they were a very lucrative article of trade.