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and for urinary calculi ; the stone, also, that is found in the 

 taiP° of this last fish, taken in drink, in doses of one obolus ; 

 the liver of the enhydris ;^^ and the ashes of the fish called 

 " blendius f' taken with rue. In the head, too, of the fish 

 called '^ bacchus,"^^ there are found certain small stones, as it 

 •were : these, taken in water, six in number, are an excellent 

 cure for urinary calculi. They say, too, that the sea-nettle,^ 

 taken in wine, is very useful for this purpose, as also the 

 pulmo marinus,®^ boiled in water. The eggs of the ssepia have 

 a diuretic efi'ect, and carry off pituitous humours from the 

 kidneys. Ruptures and convulsions are very effectually treated 

 by taking river- crabs, •''^ bruised in asses' milk more particu- 

 larly ; and urinary calculi by drinking sea-urchins pounded, 

 spines and ail, in wine ; the due proportion being one semi- 

 sextarius of wine for each urchin, and the treatment being 

 continued till its good effects are visible. The flesh, too, of 

 the sea-urchin, taken as food, is very useful as a remedy for 

 the same malady. 



Scallops®' also, taken as food, act detergently upon the blad- 

 der : the male fish is by some persons called " donax," and by 

 others *' aulos," the female being known as " onyx."®® The 



^0 Rondelet, B. ti. c. 19, suggests " capite" — " in tbe head" — but the 

 present reading is supported by the text of Plinius Valerianus, B. ii. c. 39, 

 and of Marcus Empiricus, c. 28. 



81 As to the identity of the Enhydris, see Chapters 19 and 26 of the 

 present Book : also B. xxx. c. 8. 



52 Probably the BXevvbg of Oppian, B. i. c. 108. Dalechamps identifies it 

 with the mullet called "myxon," apparently the same fish as the "bacchus" 

 mentioned in Chapter 25 of this Book. Rondelet appears to identify it 

 with some other sea-fish, small, and extremely rare. On the other hand, 

 the fish mentioned by Oppian is thought by Littre to be the "gobius" 

 of the Latins, (" gobio" or "cobio," mentioned by Pliny in B. ix. c. 83, 

 and in c. 53 of the present Book), which is generally considered the same 

 as our gudgeon, and was a worthless fish, " vilis piscis," as Juvenal says. 

 One of the Linnsean orders of fishes is called " Blennius," the blenny. 



53 See B. ix. c. 28. 84 gee B. ix. c. 68. 

 ^ Or sea-lungs. See B. ix. c. 71, and B. xviii. c. 85. 

 ^^ Or crawfish. 



^' "Pectines." See B. ix. cc. 51, 52, 68, 74, 112. 



88 Athenaeus adds a fourth name, " solen ;" and a fifth was " dactylus," 

 see B. ix. c. 87. According to Dalechamps, the name "donax" was 

 given to one kind of scallop, from its fancied resemblance to a thick, 

 hollow, river-reed, and that of " onyx" from the resemblance of its colour 

 to that of the finger-nails. 



