SCHOLA SALERNI. 175 
known to Virgil. Georg. iii. 380; to Tacitus, Germania, xxiii ; 
and to Pliny, lib. xiv. 
- 60. Nausea. 
Villa Nova understands this of sea water. Hence it has 
been altered in some editions to 
Nausea non poterit hac quem vexare, marinam 
Undam cum vino mixtam qui sumpserit anté. Sylvius, etc. 
But these two lines are taken from Macer, lib. i, sect. 3, who 
applies them to Absinthium, wormwood, as they are understood 
by Moreau. 
Nausea non potuit quemquam vexare marina, 
Anted commistam vino qui sumpserit istam. 
No doubt Absynthium was intended. The error of Villa 
Nova, and from him of the other commentators, has arisen 
from the omission of the name of the plant in the text, and the 
want not being supplied by the title De Absynthio put at the 
head of the article, as has been done for the same reason to 
Urtica and other plants, i in lines 199, 206, 212, 214, 217, 219, 
224. Moreau found this title in some of his manuscripts. With- 
out something to refer to, the sense and grammar are defective. 
That Istam or illam are in the pene: though referring to 
Absynthium, is no objec It is n Macer, whose ad- 
jectives all the way sae that ortila refer to Absynthii 
t begins, 
Tn primo calor est gradu, vis vis sicca secundo 
Dicitur Absynthi, st rroborat herba 
Illus, quocunque modo quis oe illam 
Moreau justly observes, ~ sea water was never recom 
ended for this purpose, and is more likely to “disowder the 
