156 plint's natural history. [Book XII. 



a nut, and very different from the extract of the real cinna- 

 niomum, though it somewhat resembles it in its agreeable smell. 

 The price at which it sells is forty asses per pound. 



Summaey. — Remarkable facts, narratives, and observations, 

 nine hundred and seventy-four. 



Eoman authors quoted.— M. Yarro, 1 Mucianus, 2 Virgil, 8 

 Fabianus, 4 Sebosus, 5 Pomponius Mela, 6 Flavius, 7 Procilius, 8 

 Hyginus, 9 Trogus, 10 Claudius Csesar, 11 Cornelius Nepos, 12 Sex- 

 tus Niger 13 who wrote a Greek treatise on Medicine, Cassius 

 Hemina, 14 L. Piso, 15 Tuditanus, 18 Antias. 17 



Foeeign authoes quoted. — Theophrastus, 18 Herodotus, 19 Cal- 



the Myristica moschata of Thunberg, and Bonastre is of the same opinion. 

 But, as Fee observes, the nutmeg is a native of India, and Pliny speaks of 

 the Comacum as coming from Syria. Some authors, he adds, who are of 

 this opinion, think also that the other cinnamomum mentioned by Pliny 

 was no other than the nutmeg, which they take to be the same as the 

 chrysobalanos, or "golden nut," of Galen. 



1 See end of B. ii. 2 See end of B. ii. 



3 See end of B. vii. 



4 Fabianus Papirius : see end of B. ii. 



5 See end of B. ii. 6 See end of B. iii. 



7 The son of a freedman ; some further particulars are given of him by 

 Pliny in B. xxxiii. c. 1. By his talents and eloquence, he attained con- 

 siderable distinction at Rome. He was made a senator by Appius Claudius, 

 and was curule aedile b.c. 303. He published a collection of legal rules, 

 entitled the " Jus Flavianum." 



8 See end of B. viii. 9 See end of B. iii. 

 10 See end of B. vii. n See end of B. v. 



12 See end of B. ii. 



13 Probably the same as the Niger mentioned by Dioscorides as a writer 

 on Materia Medica. He is also mentioned by Epiphanius and Galen ; but 

 Dioscorides charges him with numerous blunders in his accounts of vege- 

 table productions. 



14 A compiler of Roman history, who wrote at the beginning of the 

 second century before Christ. He wrote Annals of Rome from the earliest 

 to his own times : only a few fragments of his work have survived. 



15 See end of B. ii. 



16 C. Sempronius Tuditanus, consul of Rome, b.c 129. He wrote a 

 book of historical Commentaries. He was maternal grandfather of the 

 orator Hortensius. 



17 See end of B. ii. 18 See end of B. iii. 

 " See end of B. ii. 



