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Menander, Monostichoi, 233

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

empīrĭce: ēs (-ca, ae, Marc. de Med. 6), f., = ἐμπειρική,
I empiricism in medicine, i. e. a system founded wholly on practice, Plin. 29, 1, 4, § 5.—Hence, empīrĭcus, i, m., an empiric, a physician whose knowledge of medicine is derived from experience only, Cic. Ac. 2, 39, 122 (in Cels. praef. and 5 init., written as Greek); their writings were called empīrĭca, ōrum, n., Plin. 20, 12, 48, § 120.