ENQUIRY INTO PLANTS, IV. xvi. 5-6 



thing. But halimon is more potent even than this, 

 for it destroys tree-medick. 



Again some things, though they do not cause 

 death, enfeeble the tree as to the production of 

 flavours and scents; thus cabbage and sweet bay have 

 this effect on the vine. For they say that the vine 

 scents the cabbage and is infected 1 by it. Wherefore 

 the vine-shoot, 2 whenever it comes near this plant, 

 turns back and looks away, 3 as though the smell 

 were hostile to it. Indeed Aiidrokydes 4 used this 

 fact as an example to demonstrate the use of cabbage 

 against wine, to expel the fumes of drunkenness 

 for, 5 said he, even when it is alive, the vine avoids the 

 smell. It is now clear from what has been said 

 how the death of a tree may be caused, how many 

 are the causes of death, and in what several ways they 

 operate. 



3 a.(f>opav conj. Sch.; evtyopftv U; acpopfiv Aid.; averti G; 

 recedere Plin. I.e. ; ^KX^p^f conj. W. 



4 A medical man who preached temperance to Alexander ; 

 cf. Plin. 14. 58 ; 17. 240. 



8 yap STJ Kal conj. Dalec. from G ; yap Sel /caJ Aid. 



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