474 PLINr's NATUEAL HISTORY. [Book XXXI. 



Great prince of Roman eloquence, thy grove, 



"Where erst thou bad'st it rise, is verdant now : 



Thy villa, from fair Acaderaia^' nam'd, 



From Vetus now its finish'd graces takes. 



Here, too, fair streams burst forth, unknown before, 



"Which with their spray the languid eyes relieve. 



The land, I ween, these bounteous springs reveal'd, 



To honour Cicero, its ancient lord. 



Throughout the world his works by eyes are scann'd ; 



May eyes unnumber'd by these streams be heal'd. 



CHAP. 4. WATEKS PEODrCTIYE OF FECUNDITY. WATERS CURATIVE 



OF INSANITY. 



In Campania, too, are the waters of Sinuessa,^^ remedial, it 

 is said, for sterility in females, and curative of insanity in men. 



CHAP. 5. WATERS REMEDIAL FOR URINARY CALCULI. 



The waters of the island of -^naria are curative of urinary 

 calculi,^^ it is said ; and the same is the case with the cold 

 spring of Acidula,^* four miles distant from Teanum^^ Sidici- 

 num, the waters at Stabise, known as the Dimidise,'® and those 

 in the territory of Yenafrum,^^ which take their rise in the 

 spring of Acidula. Patients suffering from these complaints 

 may be cured also by drinking the waters of Lake Yelia ;"^ the 

 same effects being produced by those of a spring in Syria, near 

 Mount Taurus, M. Varro says, and by those of the river Gallus 

 in Phrygia, as we learn from Callimachus. In taking the waters, 

 however, of this last, the greatest moderation is necessary, as 

 they are apt to cause delirium ; an effect equally produced, 

 Ctesias tells us, by the waters of the Eed Pountain^^ in 

 -(^Ethiopia. 



21 We are sensible that, in thus shortening the penultimate, we shall 

 incur the censure of solecizing, which Hardouin has cast upon the poet 

 Claudian for doing the same. 



22 At the Torre de' Bagni, Hardouin says, near the church of Santa 

 Maria a Caudara. 



23 Saline and gaseous waters are good for this purpose. See B. iii. c. 12. 

 "^^ It has still the same reputation, Hardouin says, and is situate near 



the castle of Francolici. 25 gge B. iii. c. 9. 



^^ Or " half-strength " waters, apparently. See B. iii. c. 9. 

 '-'7 See B. iii. c. 9. 



28 See B. ii. cc. 62, 106, and B. iii. c. 17. 



29 Alluded to, probably, by Ovid, Met. xv. 319, et seq. 



