among physicians, any remedy, the preparation of which is industriously concealed, in or- der to enhance its value.

in Ancient Geography, a villa of Q. Ci- cero, Tully's brother, in Latium, (Cicero). Now Arce, in the Terra di Lavora, in the kingdom of Na- ples, on the borders of the Campagna di Roma, on the river Melpis, between Arpinum and Aquinum.