BOOK I 



Antonius Castor, Foreign authorities : Democritus, 

 Theophrastus. Orpheus, Menander's Things service- 

 ahlefor life, Pythagoras, Nicander. Medical writers : 

 Hippocrates, Chrysippus,Diocles, Ophion, HeracUdes, 

 Hicesius, Dionysius, Apollodorus of Citium, Apollo- 

 dorus of Tarentum, Praxagoras, Pleistonicus, Medius, 

 Dieuches, Cleophantus, PhiUstion, Asclepias, Crateuas, 

 Petronius Diodotus, lollas, Erasistratus, Diagoras, 

 Andreas, Mnesides, Epicharmus, Damion, Dalion, 

 Sosimenes, Tlepolemus, Metrodorus, Solon, Lycus, 

 Olympias of Thebes, Phihnus, Petrichus, Miceio, 

 Glaucias, Xenocrates. 



Book XXI. Contents : the natures of flowers and 

 of flowers for garlands. (ii-ix). Of wreaths ; gar- 

 lands ; inventors of blending flowers ; when first 

 ealled ' floral crowns,' and why ; who first bestowed 

 crowns with silver and gold foliage ; why called 

 ' garland-gratuities ' ; of ribbons — who first repro- 

 duced them in carving ; high value placed on crowns 

 of honour among the ancients ; simphcity of crowns 

 among the ancients ; who received a crown bestowed 

 by the nation at Rome ; plaited crowns ; stitched 

 cro^vns, nard-crowns, silk crovms ; Queen Cleopatra's 

 action with regard to crowns. (x-xii,lxxiii-v). Rose, 

 12 kinds, 32 drugs ; lily, 3 kinds, 23 drugs ; plant 

 from an exudation ; narcissus, 3 kinds, 16 drugs. 

 (xiii) Flowers grown of special colours by dyeing the 

 the seed. (xiv-xxxvii) Mode of growing from 

 cuttings, from seed, mode of cultivating various 

 flowers, arranged under varioiis kinds ; the violet 

 3 colours (Ixxvi, 17 drugs) ; yellow herb, 5 kinds 

 (Ixx^q, 10 drugs) ; marsh marigold ; king flower ; 

 cyclamen (17 drugs) ; rush (1 drug) ; crocus (Ixxxi, 

 20 drugs) ; where the best flowers are ; what flowers 



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