Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Pharmacopola

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

PHARMACOPO'LA (φαρμακοπώλης). One who makes and vends quack medicines (Hor. Sat. i. 2. 1.); not a legitimate dealer or practitioner, but one of the class of mountebanks, still common in Italy and other countries, who frequent the public market places (Cic. Cluent. 14. circumforaneus), where they hold forth the virtues of their nostrums in a loud and fluent discourse (Cato ap. Gell. i. 5. 3.) to the ignorant multitude.