201 PLINY'S NATUKAL HISTORY. [Book XIX. 



66 Thus far, then, we have treated of the garden plants, viewed 

 as articles of food only ; it remains for us now (for up to the 

 present we have only spoken of their various methods of culti- 

 vation, with some succinct details relative thereto), ^to enlarge 

 upon the more elaborate operations of Mature in this respect ; 

 it heing quite impossible to come to a full understanding as to 

 the true characteristics of each individual plant, without a 

 knowledge of its medicinal effects, a sublime and truly myste- 

 rious manifestation of the wisdom of the Deity, than whicli 

 nothing can possibly be found of a nature more elevated. It 

 is upon principle that we have thought proper not to enlarge 

 upon the medicinal properties of each plant when treating ol 

 it ; for it is a quite different class of persons that is interested 

 in knowing their curative properties, and there is no doubt 

 that both classes of readers would have been inconvenienced in 

 a very material degree, if these two points of view had engaged 

 our attention at the same moment. As it is, each class will 

 have its own portion to refer to, while those who desire to dc 

 so, will experience no difficulty in uniting them, with referenct 

 to any subject of which we may happen to treat. 



SUMMARY. Remarkable facts, narratives, and observations, 

 one thousand one hundred and forty-four.- 



EOMAN AUTHORS QUOTED. Maccius Plautus, 67 M. Varro, 61 

 D. Silanus, 69 Cato the Censor, 70 Hyginus, 71 Virgil, 72 Mucianus, 7: 

 Celsus, 74 Columella, 75 Calpurnius Bassus, 76 Mamilius Sura, 7 

 Sabinus Tiro, 78 Licinius Macer, 79 Quintus Hirtius, 80 Vibiu; 



66 Fee suggests, though apparently without any good reason, that thi 

 paragraph, to the end of the Book, is an interpolation of the copyists. 

 6 ? See end of B. xiv. HS See end of B. ii. 



69 See end of B. xiv. 70 See end of B. iii. 



" See end of B. iii. 72 See end of B. vii. 



'* See end of B. ii. r4 See end of B. vii. 



75 See end of B. viii. 76 See end of B. xvi. 



77 See end of B. x. 



78 Beyond the mention made of this writer in c. 57, nothing whatever i 

 known of him. 



79 C. Licinius Macer, a Roman annalist and orator, horn about B.C. 110 

 Upon being impeached by Cicero, he committed suicide, tie wrote a His 

 tory or Annals of Rome, which are frequently referred to by Livy air 

 Uionysius of Halicarnassus. 



80 Nothing whatever appears to he known of this writer. 



