PHYSIC

The general heads of Physic are these: of the world, and of all things in the world, of Heaven, and of Earth, and of the natures between them.790 The defect of the fragments concerning these, we shall endeavor to supply by adding the Treatise of Timaeus the Locrian upon the same subject. [See page 301]

The brass tripod of Apollo appears on the reverse of this silver stater of Croton, struck c.420 B.C. The obverse shows young Heracles seated before an altar, and among his accouterments. The reverse shows Apollo's tripod decorated with hanging fillets, amidst a scene of Apollo preparing to discharge an arrow into the serpent Python.

Photo courtesy of Numismatica Ars Classica