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Epigram LXXX. — On Alcon a Doctor who made a Soothsayer a false Prophet
Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1919–21) · From Book XIX. — Epigrams of Ausonius on Various Matters
When Marcus was sick, Diodorus the soothsayer told him that no more than six days of life remained. But the doctor, Alcon, more potent than the gods and fates, straightway proved the divination false and touched his patient's hand who might have lived had he not touched; for straightway Marcus' six days came to an end.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Ausonius, Decimus Magnus. “Epigram LXXX. — On Alcon a Doctor who made a Soothsayer a false Prophet.” Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/ausonius/280/.
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Ausonius, Decimus Magnus. “Epigram LXXX. — On Alcon a Doctor who made a Soothsayer a false Prophet.” Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/ausonius/280/.
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