a viscous brown juice extracted from green olives. With this oil the ancient athletæ, 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 frigmenta so highly esteemed in the cure of several diseases. This precious medicine was carefully scraped off the body of the athleta with a kind of instrument something like a comb, which was called frigilis; and such was the demand for the scrapings, that they were a very lucrative article of trade.