87 



o castffl, wo find, it patient-. 



rwu p'-nt, I am r.urprr-ed that the Or< 

 ' gono HO f lantt 



V: Under 



I do not m< -:jrj th' -, plants merely ; for such is OUT 



ri of lib; that death 



of men. \V< use of a somewhat 



peaks of S .odius, M a 



memher of tne !/]',< illy tormented 



wit.li out, that he had ) :i poisons, 



nsa- 



the / that frofl tha* 



fion, orjii.'ijjy with all pain, | 



}>'>dy. J*iit wliat oxou'-.' ! 



world ,'irf|uai.']t<:<J v, it.h , : Jy roj-ult of t; 



\vliif:}j in. to r](:r;jn^o tli'- '. to pro'K 



<;r effects eq ua! So far as I am 



<:on<;.'-rnf.-<J, I nliall (Jr : ' l }jf;r abortives nor pliiltres, 



.n# in mind, an I do, that Jjjr;ullu, that most celebrated 

 nil, dif-d of th< of a philtre.* Nor shall I speak 



of othor ill-oirjMif-d d':vif:' ; s of rna^io, unloH it he to give 



warning a^ain-:t th<-m, or to BXpQf6 thorn, for I most emphati- 



rally oondornn all faith and h^liof in t; 8 for 



rri(:, and I shall havr : abundantly dono my duty, if J point out 

 '; }>!ants which WTO made for tho bo-riofit of manJ 



tho propr-rtios of whioh I rod in th'. I 



time-. 



MIAP. 8. (4.) MOI.V : 'J n HEE KEMKDIES. 



According to Horn' r/*' 1 the mo-t r:el<:hr;. 

 that, which, according to him, is known as moly 41 a: 



;f: tho cae of M. ACTippa, rm .-ritjon^l in 1i. xxiii. c. 27. 



-'' Said, by Plutarch, to haw: b:<-n a<JrniniKU-rcd to him by hi freedman 

 Callisthonos, with the view of securing his affection. 



<" Od. x. 1. -W2, ^*<-y. 



41 F('o rlrjvotfcs a couj)N: of pajres to thet?af/' r /y>"' 



of thiH plant, and CO! <Hiori that tho Moly of JJorri'-r, 



ni<;ntiori<:d on the pr':K:nl occa.-.ion, stn'1 of Theophrahtus, Ovid, and the 

 . | only an imaginary plant ; that t.hc whiUi-flowered Moly 

 of b: 1 OaJen is identical with the AJliurn Jjioscoridig of 



thorpo; and that the yellow-flowered Moly of the author of the Priapeia 

 is not improbably the Allium Moly or magicum of Linnseiw. Sprengel 



