Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Seplasiarius

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. 

SEPLASIA'RIUS. A dealer in medicinal herbs, and in medicines compounded from them, answering in some respects, though not exactly, to the chemist and druggist of the present day. It is not easy, however, to determine the precise branch of trade carried on under this name; but from the passages cited below, it is clear that the seplasiarius sold herbs to veterinaries for the cure of cattle, and also medicines ready made up to physicians, like our dealer in patent medicines. Veg. Vet. iv. 3. 6. Plin. xxxiv. 11. Lamprid. Elag. 30. Beckmann, History of Inventions, vol. i. p. 328. Lond.