Handicrafts 3.

Thus Cato the Elder (de R.R.

160) gives as potent against sprains the formula: -hauat hauat hauat ista pista sista damia bodannaustra-, which was presumably quite as obscure to its inventor as it is to us.

Of course, along with these there were also formulae of words; e.g.

it was a remedy for gout, to think, while fasting, on some other person, and thrice nine times to utter the words, touching the earth at the same time and spitting:--"I think of thee, mend my feet.