id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2320 Marcellus Empiricus - Wikipedia .html text/html 4927 373 57 It is a significant if quirky text in the history of European medical writing, an infrequent subject of monographs, but regularly mined as a source for magic charms, Celtic herbology and lore, and the linguistic study of Gaulish and Vulgar Latin.[1] Bonus auctor est ("he's a good authority") was the judgment of J.J. Scaliger,[2] while the science historian George Sarton called the De medicamentis an "extraordinary mixture of traditional knowledge, popular (Celtic) medicine, and rank superstition."[3] Marcellus is usually identified with the magister officiorum of that name who held office during the reign of Theodosius I. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2320.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2320.txt