ENQUIRY INTO PLANTS, IX. xn. 1-3 



radishes l and the pieces strung on a rush ; it is also 

 good against the broad maw-worm ; the patient first 

 eats a bunch of raisins and then drinks about an 

 eighth of a pint of this scraped up in a draught of 

 dry wine. It is fatal to dogs and pigs ; to kill a dog 

 it is well mixed up in a meal paste with oil and water, 

 to kill a pig it is mixed with f mountain cabbage ' 

 (spurge). 2 It is given to a woman in sweet wine- 

 lees or sweet wine. And if one wishes to discover 

 whether a man that is sick will recover, they say 

 that he should be washed with this for three days, 

 and, if he survives the experience, he will recover. 

 It grows everywhere alike and has a leaf like the 

 golden thistle, but larger ; the plant itself has a 

 large thistle-like 3 head 4 close to the ground ; some 

 actually 5 call it the thistle. 



6 The dark kind resembles the other in leaf, which 

 is like that of the golden thistle but smaller and 

 smoother ; the plant itself is in general appearance 

 like a sunshade ; the root is stout and black, and 

 when broken is yellowish. It likes cold uncultivated 

 soil : it has the property of expelling leprosy ; for 

 this it is given pounded up in vinegar, or else 

 scrapings of it are made into a plaster ; and it is also 

 used for the white leprosy. This plant is also fatal 

 to dogs. 7 



Of the various plant* called ' 'poppy,' 



8 There are several kinds of wild poppy : the one 

 called the horned poppy is black : the leaf of this is 



6 Sc /cat a.Kai>ov I conj. ; 8' &KavQav U*mPar., so also Diosc. 

 I.e.-, 8' &KCLVOV PAld.G. 



6 Diosc. 3. 9 ; Plin. I.e. 



7 KVVO.S : Kvvoppa'iffTas, dog-ticks, conj. Reinesius from Plin. 

 ricinos canum. 



8 Diosc. 4. 64 ; Plin. 20. 205 and 206. 



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