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^"ai^ Criri anBeres medicm£prodiderc,<^msfttis loci^ diximus.Ex his StMX 



rex Arahumy quid deftmfiicium effeUilns ad Neronemfcripfi, 



DhnyJim,Metrod<iri(i oratiome blandtjjinja^fed qua nihil pene di 



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id quam ret dtfjicult as intelltgatur. ^inxere name^ ^^gies herbarHm, 

 atanejcrlpfere effeSltu . Vertmi ^ piBnrdfallax eB ex cotmhm tarn 

 fiumerojis.prafertim in nmulatione natKir&^tihumque degenerM tran- 

 fcrihentiumfors varia . Pr<ztereafarfimeTtfmgulas earum atatesfin" 

 aiy cum qnadripartitis varietatib pu anm faciem mutent . Qmre cd- 

 terifermone eas tradidere . ^liqui ejfigie quidem indicata^ & nu- 

 dis quidem pUriimque mminibm defun^i : qaomam fatis videbdtur, 

 poteFiAtes vfmque demonflrare quarere votentibHi . Nee eU dijfici' 

 le cognitu . Nobis certe, except is admodum pauc is ^ contigit reltquAt 

 Antonius contempUrifcientia tAntonij CaBoris , cut Jumma amoritatis erat 



in en arte noHro izuo^vifendo hortulo eitts in quoplmimas alebat : cen- 

 tefmum dtatis annum excedens, nullum corporis malum e Xpert us ^ ac 

 ne at ate quidem memoria^am vigor e concitJJh.Nec aliud mirata magis. 

 a»tiquitas rcperietur, Inuenta iampriiem ratio eSi pranunciam horoit 

 non modo dies ac nocies,folis /j«»^^ defeSium. Durat tamen traditaper- 

 [uafio in magna parte vulghvenejicijs ^ herbis idcogi : in eo ndm^foc-' 

 tmnarum fcientiamprAualere.Certe quidmnrepleuere fabulis Colchis 

 Medea/tli£^:imprimifque Italica Circe, d^s etiam adfcriptalVnde ar* 

 hitror natum.vt ^fchjltu e vetufiijfimis inpoetica re^eferta Italiam 

 herharum potentiaproderet, Multtq^ Circaios agros.vbi habit auit ilia, 

 in magno argumento ettamnum durante in ^iarjis^afilio eitts ortagC" 

 Kere,qaos ep domitores ferpentium conHat. Homerus quidem primus 

 doBrinarum & anttquitatisparens^Hltus alias in admiratione Circes , 

 gloriam herb arum JSgypto tribuit, turn etiam cum rigaretur v^f itn 

 tm illa^on atitem ejfet,pofieafluminis limo inueUa. Herb as eerie cy£- 



ditasfuA Helena plftrimas narrate acnobile il- 



Himerus 



W Nepenthes, obliHtonem trifiitia veniamq^ afsrens^ alb Helena v- 

 tique omnibus mortaltbm prapinandum . Trimrn autem omnium quos 

 memoria nouityOrpheus de his herbis curiojius aliquaprodidit. ToB e- 

 nm mufcus & Hefodus Tolion her bam in quantum miratifuntt dtxi- 

 mus. Orpheus & Hefiodusfugiticnes ccmmendauere. Homer tj^ aU- 

 as nomiMtim herbas celebratyquasfuis locis die emus, ^h eo Tythnvo- 

 ras cUrtisfapientia,primm velumen de earum efeBu compocJt • Z^. 



follim,^fcfdapi6^^C^ in tot urn di^s immortalibtu inuentione ^ origin 



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