BOOK I 



leaf ; iasione, chondrilla, year-long flowering bitter- 

 plant. (Ixvi) Plants producing flower before stalk, 

 stalk before flowers, thrice-flowering. (Ixvii-Ixxi) 

 Gladiolus, 8 drugs ; ccrydalis ; asphodel or royal 

 spear-grass (asphodel-stalk or bulb) ; rush, 6 kinds, 

 4 drugs ; cyperus, 4 drugs, cyperis, cypira, holo- 

 schoenos. (Ixxii) Drugs from scented rush or 

 teuchites 10. (Ixxviii-lxxxii) Drugs from hazelwort 

 8, drugs from Gallic nard 8, drugs from ' phu ' grass 

 4 ; Syrian saffron-Ieas, 2 drugs, (cviii) pcsoluta, 

 1 drug. (cix) Translation of Greek terms for 

 weights and measures. Total, 730 drugs, in- 

 vestigations and observations. 



Authorities : Cato the ex-Censor, Marcus Varro, 

 Masurius, Antias, Caepio, Vestinus, Vibius Rufinus, 

 Hyginus, Pomponius Mela, Pompeius Lenaeus, 

 Cornelius Celsus, Calpurnius Bassus, Gaius Valgius, 

 Licinius Macer, Sextius Niger's Greek treatise, Julius 

 Bassus's ditto, Antonius Castor. Foreign authorities : 

 Theophrastus, Democritus, Orpheus, Pythagoras, 

 Mago, Menander's Things serviceable for life, Ni- 

 cander, Homer, Hesiod, Musaeus, Sophocles, Anaxi- 

 laus. Medical writers : Mnesitheus On Wreaths, Calli- 

 machus ditto, Phanias the natural scientist, Simus, 

 Timaristus, Hippocrates, Chrysippus, Diocles, Ophion, 

 Heraclides, Hicesius, Dionysius, Apollodorus of 

 Citium, Apollodorus of Tarentum, Praxagoras, 

 Plistonicus, Medius, Dieuches, Cleophantus, Philistio, 

 Asclepias, Crateuas, Petronius Diodotus, loUas. 

 Erasistratus, Diagoras Andreas, Mnesides, Epi- 

 charmus, Damio, Dalio, Sosimenes, Tlepolemus, 

 Metrodorus, Solon, Lycus, Olympias of Thebes, 

 Philinus, Petrichus, Miccio, Glaucias, Xenocrates. 



Book XXn. Contents : the importance of herbs. 



