474 PLINY'S NATURAL HISTORY. [Book XXXI. 



Great prince of Roman eloquence, thy grove, 



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



Thy villa, from fair Academia 21 nam'd, 



Prom 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 scanned ; 



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



CHAP. 4. WATERS PRODUCTIVE OF FECUNDITY. WATERS CURATIVE 

 OF INSANITY. 



In Campania, too, are the waters of Sinuessa, 22 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 -dilnaria are curative of urinary 

 calculi, 23 it is said ; and the same is the case with the cold 

 spring of Acidula, 24 four miles distant from Teanum 25 Sidici- 

 num, the waters at Stabise, known as the Dimidise, 26 and those 

 in the territory of Yenafrum, 27 which take their rise in the 

 spring of Acidula. Patients suffering from these complaints 

 may he cured also by drinking the waters of Lake Velia ; 28 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 Bed Fountain 29 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. 



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

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



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



27 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. 



