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they rose up again as though recovering from the 

 effects of medicine. " e The account of the effect of 

 this honey by Diodorus Siculus corresponds exactly 

 with this, and was probably compiled from it. 



Strabo speaks thus concerning it. (( These Hep- 

 tacometae f cut to pieces three cohorts of Pompey 

 which had forced their way through the mountains, 

 by mixing for them in the ways, goblets of the mad- 

 dening^ honey, which the higher branches of the trees 

 here produce. For by falling upon the men when 

 they had drank it, and in consequence lost their 

 senses, they easily put them to the sword." 11 



Pliny in his Natural History also speaks of this 

 Honey.— '< The food (of the bees) is a matter of so 

 much consequence that the honey may even be 

 poisoned by it. At Heraclea in Pontus the honey, 

 made by the same bees, is in some years of a most 

 destructive quality. As no authors have told us from 

 what flowers it is made, we will report the result of 

 our own discoveries. 



" There is a plant, which, from its power of de- 

 stroying cattle, in general, but more particularly goats, 

 is called ^golethron.' 1 The flowers of this plant, 



e Xenophon Cyri Expedit. Lib. iv. c. 8. Ksu t« ^uev a?,h<t 



;es. 



f Inhabitants of the seven village 

 g Tm5, fxaD/ofAird fxfhnofy are the words of Strabo. 

 *> Strabo Lib. xii. (Art. Pontus) O! 5e Ettta xapufc-M/ 

 » kiyon 5xe&go«, the destruction of goats. 



